News for Developers

2017 Games of the Year

What a fantastic year it has been for games across all platforms! This year Facebook celebrated the 1-year anniversary of Instant Games on Messenger, which has more than 70 games available to play on your own or against friends. On Gameroom, our PC desktop client, we've added more than 200 games, and there has been no shortage of excellent titles...

Gaming 2017

December 21, 2017

Earlier this year we released Camera Effects Platform in closed beta, putting the the first augmented reality platform into the hands of talented creators such as brands, publishers, artists and developers.

Earlier this year we released Camera Effects Platform (CEP) in closed beta, putting the first augmented reality platform into the hands of talented creators such as brands, publishers, artists and developers. With AR Studio, this platform empowers creators to connect art with data to bring augmented reality into everyday life through the Facebook...

Augmented Reality 2017

December 20, 2017

Strict URI Matching

In an effort to increase security for apps using Facebook Login, we're making some important changes to the handling of URI redirects.These changes only affect apps using a custom OAuth flow; for apps using the JavaScript, iOS or Android SDKs, no action is required....

Developer Policy 2017

December 18, 2017

ONNX v1

In September, we released an early version of the Open Neural Network Exchange format(ONNX) with a call to the community to join us and help create an open, flexible standard to enable deep learning frameworks and tools to interoperate. Today Facebook, AWS, and Microsoft are excited to announce that with the support of the community and new...

Artificial Intelligence 2017

December 6, 2017

Changes to our Developer Offerings

We're continuously evaluating how to best serve our developer community. To support this effort, we recently reviewed our product offerings to ensure our resources are focused on building and enhancing the solutions that create the most value for developers.As a result, some products will sunset in order for us to build new products for our...

Business Tools 2017

November 16, 2017

Join us for F8 2018 on May 1 - 2 in San Jose, CA

F8, our biggest conference of the year, is happening at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, CA on May 1 and 2, 2018. Facebook’s annual developer conference showcases new technologies and tools and the amazing work of the developers who are using them. In addition to more than 50 sessions, attendees can experience interactive demos, have the...

2018 2017

October 24, 2017

Intelligent Tracking Prevention

On September 19, 2017, Apple released iOS11 and with it, Safari’s new Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP). ITP limits the use of 3rd party cookies to 24 hours and deletes a site's cookies entirely for sites not visited within a 30-day period. This will affect developers who use Facebook Social Plugins, Facebook Analytics and Facebook Login.So...

Business Tools Social Integrations

October 5, 2017

Introducing Graph API v2.11

In the newest Graph API (v2.11), we're making updates, including changes to the Pages API and App Links Host. We support each version of the Graph API two years from the next version release so you always have two years to upgrade. Check to see how much longer we will be supporting the version of the Graph API you are running.Pages API Updates...

Business Tools 2017

September 29, 2017

Optimizing and Improving the Android SDK

We've made some important updates to our Android SDK to help keep your mobile apps lean and make it easier to take advantage of our analytics tools.Today, we're splitting the Android SDK into sub-modules so you only need to add libraries for the features your app uses. This helps developers build accessible, engaging apps with code that's...

Business Tools 2017

September 26, 2017