Log into Facebook with Adobe AIR (without leaving the desktop)

10 Comments

1. mark
   Posted January 29, 2008 at 11:28 am | Permalink

   hi,
   nice article. A quick question, can i write the same app in flex3 and host it on my website.

2. Alastair
   Posted January 29, 2008 at 11:47 am | Permalink

   Hey Mark, yes but… you can’t use the HTML component in a Flex app. Other than that using the Adobe Facebook API to login is pretty much the same.

3. mark
   Posted January 29, 2008 at 11:00 pm | Permalink

   Thanks for the quick reply,

   Are you aware of any counterpart for html control in flex 3 ?

4. Alastair
   Posted January 29, 2008 at 11:22 pm | Permalink

   I only know of a (fairly expensive) commercial component http://drumbeatinsight.com/htmlcomponent

   I’m not sure it it has the same listeners for detecting page changes etc.

5. mark
   Posted January 30, 2008 at 8:23 am | Permalink

   Thanks man,

   I found another component IFrame (on flex.org) which can display an HTML page, but I will have to find out a way to detect change in URL (location change). Let see if I can get that done, then only I will start using ur code.

   I have another requirement, For Facebook auth authorization, I want to display a 320*250 px HTML page only, Is there a way to resize the Facebook app authorization page in that size without any scrollbars.

6. Alastair
   Posted January 30, 2008 at 8:37 am | Permalink

   You can’t resize the facebook page but with the HTML component you can crop a page, so you could just show the login area.

7. Yui
   Posted February 26, 2008 at 3:36 pm | Permalink

   Hi,

   I got the Error #1014: Class flash.events::NativeWindowBoundsEvent could not be found when compiled your project with Flex 3. How to fix it?

8. Ann Arbor Michigan Website Promotion
   Posted October 20, 2008 at 11:59 pm | Permalink

   This is useful info. Thanks for sharing the code. Will try something new with it.

9. Bruno
   Posted November 11, 2008 at 9:35 am | Permalink

   I really want to get this working but I do not know how compile everything on Flash CS4. Please help!

   Best
   Bruno

10. Tarek Mahmud
    Posted April 25, 2009 at 5:05 am | Permalink

    I’m trying create facebook login from air by using adobe flash cs4. But i can’t do it. Can u help me to find out the problem or tell me how can i start from adobe flash cs4.