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Yes, Facebook requires that any mobile app using Facebook login do so via their SDK. Presumably they will disable your Facebook app (breaking login) if you don’t comply.

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They told us that explicitly. We had been using the URL-based login on the app (i.e. open a browser with the URL and use the redirect to continue logging in), for almost two years. Then about a year ago, they e-mailed us just before a holiday and told us we had less than a week to move all of our apps to SDK otherwise they'd just disable us. Their argument was that "it's not providing the best possible experience to our users". There hadn't been a single complaint about it though.

We had nearly 100,000 users logged into our app via Facebook login so we were basically strongarmed into complying. We somehow pulled it off before the deadline for both Android and iOS but felt really dirty afterwards.

The above is correct. Facebook wants you to use the SDK.

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