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Building Facebook Applications Using iOS

by Jon Flanders

This course shows you how to lightly or tightly integrate Facebook into your iOS application. It will cover using the Facebook SDK so you can create a highly social, shareable application using Xcode and Objective-C.

What you'll learn

Facebook hardly needs any introduction. As the world's largest social network it has become a go-to source for not only social connections but also social applications. Building an application on iOS that takes advantage of Facebook's large network and sophisticated APIs will help your application gain acceptance and reach. This course is all about using the Facebook SDK for iOS to do just that. From sharing, to security, to the Facebook Open Graph this course gives you the information you need to build a loosely or tightly integrated Facebook application on iOS.

About the author

Although Jon spent the first few years of his professional life as an attorney, he quickly found chasing bits more interesting than chasing ambulances. He first worked at the University of Minnesota, building a financial reporting Web site using ASP and SQL Server, specializing in automatic integration between multiple data stores. Since joining the training industry in 1999, Jon has devoted his time to working on various projects while migrating from the world of ASP and COM to the world of .NE... more

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