Facebook presents its mobile development framework

Typically Facebook: the docs suck

I click on "See it in action" and "Android devices" (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/mobile/screenshots/andr...) and get a 404.

Am I missing something? From a native iOS perspective anyway, this is nothing new. (Besides the one-click log-in anyway)

This seems like facebook's way of catching up with how twitter's technology is baked into the iOS 5 OS.

There is a big difference here in that app post contents will (hopefully) appear on mobile devices with all of their content visible and intact. Today when an app makes a post, the "description" (one of the optional post parameters) is left out when the post is viewed on a mobile device, and if there is an image it will get cropped to be square. The "description" is where your app really delivers most of its content for the post, and leaving it out today on mobile makes the posts appear almost nonsensical. Plus there is an open bug right now ( https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/151722701585098 ) that has rendered app posts almost completely invisible on mobile devices since about Sept 25...I am guessing they will have to fix that bug as part of this new commitment to mobile. I know for one of my apps this bug has cut our traffic (and ad revenue) by 50%.

Could be interesting, even though most of this was already doable through the regular API, some new interesting things (send Request to a friend for example is a nice idea).

But with the FB Credits thing, i'm not sure what are the implications in terms of revenue stream, if my app already as an advertiser platform, do i have to funnel it through Facebook, or FB Credits are just for end users? Anybody as more information regarding this?

It is interesting to see how Facebook, Google, Apple collide on mobile by bring their core competencies onto their own mobile offering. Each one also tries to lock down users, based on their advantages. If competition wins, we shall have the same exciting ground on mobile too.

This is awesome. Except, I can't see my friend lists. I assume this is in the works...