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Develop Flash Facebook applications with Facebook Graph API Development with Flash

January 20, 2011 • Actionscript 3, Facebook, Flash by Emanuele Feronato • 7 Comments

The latest result of my collaboration with Packt Publishing is Facebook Graph API Development with Flash by Michael James Williams, who also owns a blog about Flash game developing.

Michael is an excellent writer and I was pleased to be the reviewer of this book.

Yes, it’s me!! I’ve carefully read the book page by page, image by image, and I have to say it’s a great resource both for developers trying to make Flash Facebook applications and for everyone looking for a guide on the Facebook Graph API. Guaranteed by the reviewer :)

While some tutorials taken from the book will come soon (I am polishing the book I am writing during these days and I have thousands of ideas to show you once it will be on the shelves), let me show you what you’ll learn reading this book:

* Make your AS3 projects more social and personalise them for your users by adding Facebook integration
* Grab information directly from Facebook into your applications by using Facebook’s Graph API
* Securely authenticate your users with OAuth 2.0 to log them into Facebook
* Access information about your users and their friends directly from Facebook – no need to make them type it all in again
* Upload photographs, add wall posts, and create events through AS3
* Search on Facebook’s databases with the powerful Facebook Query Language
* Build an AS3 Facebook SDK that you can drop into any AS3 project to add Facebook integration
* Easily access both public and private Facebook data from the surface of a graph

If you’re looking for a book to start developing Flash Facebook applications, Facebook Graph API Development with Flash is your book.

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  1. MichaelJW

    on January 21, 2011 at 1:11 am

    Yay! Thanks Emanuele — not just for this review, but also for the technical review and all your help and advice throughout :) I really appreciate it!

    Glad you enjoyed the book :)

  2. Todorus

    on January 21, 2011 at 11:44 am

    That sounds interesting. Social media is really something any webdeveloper should look into nowadays. Activate people to promote the game/website For you.

    I’ve had a shot with the official sdk from Adobe last week, but I found it very cumbersome. It looked geared toward the Flash IDE while my IDE of choice is FlashDevelop, so I only need the pure API controls and model. I like to have the freedom of creating a view myself.

    Does the book focus on development with the Flash IDE, or also raw API calls? That may save me the time of writing my own Facebook json parser.

  3. MichaelJW

    on January 21, 2011 at 5:09 pm

    I wrote the book using FlashDevelop, though nothing in the book depends on any specific IDE. You can use Flash Builder or Flash CS3+ if you prefer (I included sample code files for each).

    Each new concept is introduced using raw API calls. After you’ve understood how it works, it explains how to use the official Adobe SDK to do the same thing.

    Check out the free sample chapter: https://www.packtpub.com/sites/default/files/0744-chapter-2-welcome-to-the-graph.pdf. This is the first chapter in which you write any code. Actually, it’s a bit of an exception because it doesn’t use the SDK at all; that’s introduced in the following chapter, which is about authentication.

  4. Chris Moeller

    on January 25, 2011 at 9:08 pm

    Nice!

    I was looking over the facebook API documents earlier this week, and was planning on pursuing adding facebook integration to my games.

    I just checked this out on Amazon (published early December), will there be a kindle version of the book?

    I’ve been using it on my android and computer, and it seems one of the easiest way for me to get books.

  5. MichaelJW

    on January 28, 2011 at 2:35 am

    Hey Chris,

    I’m a Kindle fan too, and I just checked with the publisher, but unfortunately there are no plans for a Kindle version :( Still, there is a PDF version, at least…

  6. Ehtisham Siddiqui

    on February 14, 2012 at 2:00 pm

    So much buzz around Graph API. Have just started FB app development, and I must say, your tutorials were awesome! Thanks a lot.

  7. Anthoni Gardner

    on February 17, 2012 at 3:37 am

    Purchased this book as I develop in Flex a lot and I have been wanting to get into Facebook development as well.

    Superb book, very clear and concise.
    Obviously as Facebook keeps updating it’s API it would be nice if there was a place / blog that kept all this up to date ;)

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