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People can share the following kinds of content to Facebook:

  • Links - Most content is a URL which references an HTML page. To provide the most relevant information, you should mark up your page with Facebook-specific meta tags. See A Guide to Sharing for Webmasters.

  • Photos - Directly upload one or more user-generated photos.

  • Videos - Directly upload a user-generated video.

  • Multimedia - Directly upload a combination of photos and videos.

Builders​

To use the share dialog you firstly create a builder to generate the content for the share dialog. There are different builders each representing a different content type.

When people share links from your app to Facebook it includes a contentURL with the link to be shared. Build your share content for links with the ShareLinkContentBuilder builder.

To share links you will be using the ShareLinkContentBuilder to construct the content.

var builder:ShareLinkContentBuilder = new ShareLinkContentBuilder()
    .setContentUrl("https://airnativeextensions.com/extension/com.distriqt.FacebookAPI");

Using this builder you can set all of the appropriate parameters for sharing a link in your application.

Note: If you are looking for old features such as the title, description, caption and image field of ShareLinkContentBuilder have been deprecated as of v 4.22.0 of the Facebook SDK. They have now been removed completely from the SDK.

For a list of all attributes, see ShareLinkContentBuilder reference.

Photos​

People can share photos from your app to Facebook with the Share Dialog or with a custom interface.

  • The photos must be less than 12MB in size
  • People need the native Facebook for Android or iOS app installed, version 7.0 or higher

Build your share content for photos with the SharePhotoContentBuilder builder.

To share photos you will be using the SharePhotoContentBuilder to construct the share content.

You can add photos either by:

  • bitmap data using the addBitmap() function
  • local file using the addImageFile() function
var bitmapData:BitmapData = ...;

var builder:SharePhotoContentBuilder = new SharePhotoContentBuilder()
    .addBitmap( bitmapData );

Or using addImageFile:

var file:File = ...; // Some image file

var builder:SharePhotoContentBuilder = new SharePhotoContentBuilder()
    .addImageFile( file );

For a list of all attributes, see SharePhotoContentBuilder reference.

Videos​

People using your app can share videos to Facebook with the Share dialog or with your own custom interface:

  • The videos must be less than 50MB in size.
  • People who share should have Facebook for Android client version 26.0 or iOS client version 7.0 (or higher).

To share videos you will be using the ShareVideoContentBuilder to construct the share content. 

var videoFile:File = ...; // Some video file

var builder:ShareVideoContentBuilder = new ShareVideoContentBuilder()
    .setVideoFile( videoFile );

For a list of all attributes, see ShareVideoContentBuilder reference.

Media​

People using your app can share a combination of photos and videos to Facebook with the Share dialog. Note the following:

  • People need to have Android version 26.0 or iOS version 7.0 or higher.
  • People who share should have Facebook for iOS client installed, version 52.0 or higher.
  • People need the native Facebook for Android app installed, version 71 or higher
  • Photos must be less than 12MB and video must be less than 50MB in size.
  • People can share a maximum of 1 video plus up to 29 photos or 30 photos.

To share media you will be using the ShareMediaContentBuilder to construct the share content.

var videoFile:File = File.applicationStorageDirectory.resolvePath( "assets/video.mp4" );
var image1:Bitmap = ...;
var image2:Bitmap = ...;


var builder:ShareMediaContentBuilder = new ShareMediaContentBuilder()
        .addBitmap( image1.bitmapData )
        .addBitmap( image2.bitmapData )
        
        .addVideoFile( videoFile )
;

For a list of all attributes, see ShareMediaContentBuilder reference.