Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

Since last Wednesday's update, we launched Developer Alerts to make it easier for developers to receive critical information about their apps via email and notifications on Facebook.com and explained how we use polyfills in our Javascript SDK (see also our earlier post explaining how we do error handling in the Javascript SDK).

Mobile Insights for Open Graph

Today we're introducing Insights for Open Graph publishes, impressions, and referral clicks on mobile devices. This data can be segmented by mobile platform – including iPhone, iPad, Android, and mobile browser. We hope this helps developers understand which mobile platforms are the source of actions published to Facebook and which mobile platforms are the source of referral traffic.

Update to Facebook SDK 3.0 Beta for Android

We've refreshed the beta version of the Facebook SDK 3.0 for Android. The latest beta SDK includes a variety of API changes, which are documented in the change log. The new SDK (version v3.0.2.b) is now available to download from Github.

New tool to download daily payment reports

In August, we launched a new API to download payment reports for your company and announced we are no longer sending these reports via email. Now, we're giving you a new tool to download your daily payment reports directly from the developer site, instead of calling the API. This tool supports daily downloads of all transaction data available via the API, including both the detail and digest reports for the prior 45 days. Visit the Company tab in the Settings section of the developer site to start downloading reports and read our documentation for more information on the API and how to interpret the reporting format.

Upcoming breaking changes

As announced in September, the following breaking changes will go into effect on December 5, 2012:

• Removing the Static FBML Page tab app
• New policies for desktop web games off of Facebook.com
• offline_access permission removal
• New security restrictions for OAuth authorization codes
• Graph API will return full Custom Open Graph objects
• Stripping HTML from Page description field

Check out the Developer Roadmap for more info.

Weekly stats

The following stats are for activity between Wednesday, November 14 and Wednesday, November 21:

Bugs activity

• 250 bugs were reported
• 33 bugs were reproducible and accepted (after duplicates removed)
• 5 bugs were by design
• 40 bugs were fixed
• 64 bugs were duplicate, invalid, or need more information

Bugs fixed

• Error validating access token: This may be because the user logged out or may be due to a system error.
• JS SDK Login throws Dom exception when using XHTML namespace
• Autoresize (autogrow) not working
• Keyword stat method returning blank array
• Excessive throttling errors for calls to page and post Insights
• Facebook Connect popup box is blank if user blocked the app
• Error validating access token: This may be because the user logged out or may be due to a system error
• Facebook like button with confirm dialog not working
• SSO not work with FacebookSDK3.0 &
• iOS app doesn't redirect back to app requesting authentication if user is not logged in to the FB app
• Facebook app do not return to native IOS app
• Login stays on facebook instead of returning to my app
• Login with iOS FB App does not redirect back to original app
• SDK 3.1 Facebook Connect for Non-Logged in user
• Facebook SSO not returning to app after authorization
• Permissions dialog in Facebook native app if user not already logged in
• Uploading screenshots for ios native app open graph action submission
• No feedback after requesting change of company details in apps
• App Details in localized language not updating
• Facebook app displaying a error after clicking on the like button
• Like button not working on certain MSN pages
• Using auth_type=reauthenticate always returns user_denied after entering account credentials.
• "auth_type=reauthenticate" Login Problem (=> user_denied)
• Please update github SDK of facebook.apk from 1.5 to 1.9
• Bug when searching events on a specific date. (Graph Explorer)
• Google Chrome Frame and Facebook Javascript SDK - Cannot login
• Likebox iframe on ssl pages gives mixed content security warnings in IE8.
• Failed to request place search api by app access token today
• Graph API - Cannot Update Tab Position for new Timeline Page layout
• Share link on URLs shared through Graph API use incorrect URL
• Documentation search results broken (html not escaped)
• can_upload is false for app album
• Enabling November Breaking Changes for app makes notifications.object_id return nulls for comments and likes
• Error Posting URLs to Facebook using Native iOS 6/Mountain Lion
• "Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token return" in connect.facebook.net/en_GB/all.js:99
• Enabling "Accept Mobile Web Payments" prevents an app from working inside of the native facebook iOS app.
• Blank permission page when trying to authenticate through iOS app
• iOS FBGraphUser "location" property value does not fit the FBGraphLocation type.
• URL Scheme Suffix format documentation
• Significant drop in share count after 17th October

Activity on facebook.stackoverflow.com

• 331 questions asked
• 99 questions with a score of 0 or greater
• 29 answered, 30% answered rate
• 61 replied, 62% reply rate