Until now, we've mainly built applications that deal only with information provided by a user. However, lots of applications tend to send and receive data from other sources around the web. For our third and final project in this book, we will build an app that accesses the external Facebook API so that users can access their profile.
In this chapter, you will do the following things:
- Plan Friends, our Facebook application, by deciding what key factors it should have
- Gain access to the Facebook API and install the official SDK for both iOS and Android
- Use the Facebook API's Login SDK to grant the app appropriate permissions
- Grab information from the Facebook API using GraphRequest and GraphRequestManager
- Utilize an ActivityIndicator to let the user visually know that data is currently loading
- Begin building the essential features of our Facebook...