News for Developers

Building Sustainable Ecosystems: Innovation

In the 1600s, the concept of "innovation" was controversial. It stood for resistance, rebellion and contrarian opinions. Thankfully, the definition of innovation has evolved. One of the definitions for innovation is the desire and ambition to leverage technology to solve problems for people. As the definition of innovation has evolved, so has the...

Platforms Programs

December 20, 2019

Listening to our Community: Messenger Provides More Time to Adapt to New Policies and Announces One-time Notification API

Today, we are sharing a new effective date for the policy changes that we announced on August 29, 2019 to give developers and businesses additional time to prepare for the policies and incorporate new messaging features. The policy changes will now go into effect on March 4, 2020. Based off feedback from our community, we identified additional use...

Developer Policy Platforms

December 20, 2019

Dashboard improvements give developers more information and control

We’ve released today new features in the App Dashboard that will give developers additional information and insight into our permissions process and ultimately make the app review process easier for developers. App Review enables Facebook to understand how developers are using and accessing the platform, and during this process, developers request...

Platforms Programs

December 17, 2019

Global Winners for the 2019 Developer Circles Community Challenge Announced

Welcome to one of my favorite moments of the year. Following on from the announcement of our Facebook Developer Circles Community Challenge regional winners back in October, we're excited to reveal our global prize recipients live from our Facebook iD8 conference in Nairobi today!...

Platforms Programs

November 21, 2019

Facebook and Microsoft Partnering on Remote Development

We’re making Visual Studio Code the default development environment at Facebook and teaming with Microsoft to help enhance their remote development extensions in an effort to enable engineers to do remote development at scale.History Facebook engineers have written millions of lines of code. There is no mandated development environment. Some...

Developer Tools Open Source

November 19, 2019

Join us at F8 on May 5th and 6th, 2020 in San Jose, CA

F8, Facebook's annual developer conference gives us an opportunity to spotlight our global community, highlight the latest technology from our family of apps, and share our vision for the future we’re building together. I am really excited to share with all of you that F8 will take place on May 5th and 6th, 2020 at the McEnery Convention Center in...

F8 2020

November 19, 2019

Building Sustainable Ecosystems: Community

In my previous blog, we outlined our intention to democratize access to knowledge and opportunities through our investments in education, innovation and community to help develop a healthy tech ecosystem for the future. This time, let’s talk about the role community plays.Community is at the heart of everything we do at Facebook. The programs we...

Platforms Programs

November 14, 2019

Changes to Groups API Access

Since April of 2018, we’ve been reviewing the ways that people can use Facebook to share data with outside companies. We’ve removed or restricted a number of our developer APIs, such as the Groups API, which provides an interface between Facebook and apps that can integrate with a group.Before April 2018, group admins could authorize an app for a...

Platforms 2019

November 5, 2019

Introducing Graph API v5.0 and Marketing API v5.0

Today we’re releasing Graph API v5.0 and Marketing API v5.0, which features a new Ad Volume API that will help advertisers understand how many ads they’re running and prepare for the upcoming ads limitations that will be introduced next year. Ad Limits and the Ad Volume API: ...

Business Tools 2019

October 31, 2019