Facebook Launched The Software Development Kit SDK for IOS.

Facebook Launched The Software Development Kit SDK for IOS.

 

Yesterday, Facebook has announced it’s software development kit SDK update for it’s IOS developer, Making it easier to include Facebook integration within apps. The release also sets the stags for the Facebook integration in IOS 6.

After iOS 6 launches to users, the SDK will automatically use the native Facebook Login in iOS 6 when available. Just enable Login with Facebook and the SDK will ensure your apps work seamlessly on all iOS versions 4.0 and later. The SDK will continue to support the iOS 6 integration in beta until Apple’s user launch later this fall.

Other improvements in the new SDK include: 

- Better user session management: A new method for managing user tokens with both default and override behaviors. 

- Ready-to-Use Native UI Views: New pre-built user interface components to handle user profile pictures, Facebook Places locations and check-ins, and friend selections. 

- Modern Objective-C language features support: Support for features such as Automatic Reference Counting, blocks, and other tools for interfacing between the SDK and iOS. 

- Improved Facebook APIs support: Batching of SDK requests for improved performance and other tools for working with Open Graph data. 

Alongside the new SDK, Facebook has also launched a iOS Dev Center offering SDK resources including tutorials, reference documents, and concept ideas for building apps.