What's new in Facebook SDK for Android 4.4.1.0
Mar 9, 2019
- Deprecated classes: FacebookUninstallTracker
New in Facebook SDK for Android 4.4.0.0 (Jan 23, 2019)
New in Facebook SDK for Android 4.3.9.0 (Dec 6, 2018)
- Modified:
- In-app purchase auto logging is turned on by default.
- Fixed:
- Various bug fixes
New in Facebook SDK for Android 4.3.8.1 (Nov 1, 2018)
- Fix codeless setup connection issues
New in Facebook SDK for Android 4.3.7.0 (Sep 28, 2018)
New in Facebook SDK for Android 4.3.6.1 (Sep 18, 2018)
New in Facebook SDK for Android 4.3.6 (Aug 30, 2018)
New in Facebook SDK for Android 4.3.5 (Jul 27, 2018)
- Added:
- Upgrade to Facebook Graph API Version 3.1
- Fixed:
- Various bug fixes.
New in Facebook SDK for Android 4.3.4 (Jun 20, 2018)
- Added:
- Added Marketing module to enable codeless app events logging.
- Improved GDPR compliance: Facebook SDK provides the ability to disable automatic events (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/app-events/android#manual-logging). All automatic events will now respect the automatic events “on/off” flag. Note that manual logged app events are not affected by this flag.
- Added a JavascriptInterface and an augmentWebview method. This allow hybrid apps to send AppEvents from the pixel.
- Added videoAsset property to FBShareVideo so partners can share a video from the Photo library using a PHAsset.
- Modified:
- Improved compatibility with Graph API 3.0.
- Fixed:
- Various bug fixes.
New in Facebook SDK for Android 4.3.3 (May 2, 2018)
- Added
- Upgrade to Facebook Graph API Version 3.0
- Adds ACCESSTOKEN.ISCURRENTACCESSTOKENACTIVE() convenience method.
- Modified
- Fixed
- Better handing of inactive logins
- Various bug fixes
New in Facebook SDK for Android 4.3.2 (Apr 12, 2018)
- Fixed:
- Various bug fixes Fixed race condition in setUserId and updateUserPropertiesin (Android SDK)
New in Facebook SDK for Android 4.3.1 (Mar 1, 2018)
New in Facebook SDK for Android 4.3.0 (Jan 29, 2018)
- Added:
- Protection against Path Traversal Vulnerability: https://support.google.com/faqs/answer/7496913
- Support for variant-aware dependency management in Gradle 4.1 and Android Studio 3.0
- Modified:
- Fixed:
- Minor fixes to messenger sharing
- Various bug fixes
- Account Kit:
- Added:
- Upgrade to AccountKit Graph API version 1.3
- Modified:
- Remove preferences API
- Updated country code selector and phone number input
- Fixed:
- Fixed parsing of new JIO number
New in Facebook SDK for Android 4.1.1 (May 7, 2015)
- Fixed:
- All open graph content shared through the ShareApi required the user_messages permission.
- Videos with a file uri instead of content uri fail to share via the ShareApi.
- Audience Network:
- Fixed
- Null pointer exception with null user agent.
- Catching OutOfMemoryErrors when blurring images for native ad templates.
- Catching all the errors when blurring images for native ad templates.
- Using less memory while blurring images for native ad templates.
New in Facebook SDK for Android 4.0.1 (Apr 9, 2015)
- Added:
- Added an explicit landscape layout for Scrumptious.
- The tooltip_mode attribute on LoginButton can be set in layout.
- Fixed:
- The app settings are updated to be fetched by the executor on FacebookSdk.
- LoginButton NUX settings are updated to be fetched by the executor on FacebookSdk.
- Login button is updated to properly measure its size.
- Fixed video uploads via ShareApi.
- LikeViews associated to page ids will always be disabled on GingerBread devices.
New in Facebook SDK for Android 4.00.0 (Mar 26, 2015)
- Added:
- Login
- LoginManager and AccessToken - These new classes perform Facebook Login.
- AccessTokenTracker - This new class receives notifications of access token changes. This includes when a token gets updated, or when a different user logs in.
- Profile and ProfileTracker Are new classes to get notifications of profile changes, such as when a different person logs in to your app.
- Login and Graph API Errors - LoginManager can now resolve GraphRequest errors which are login related.
- Sharing
- ShareApi class to help sharing through the Graph API.
- Dialogs
- Strongly typed dialog classes - Are added for App Invites, App Group creation, App Group joins, Game Requests, Messages and Share. Each *Dialog class has an associated *Content class with a Builder so you can easily set parameters.
- Modified:
- Deprecated - Any classes or methods marked as @deprecated in 3.x have been removed. Some feature specific classes have been moved into their own packages such as com.facebook.login and com.facebook.share.
- Graph API - GraphObject, OpenGraphObject and OpenGraphAction classes have been removed in favor of using JSON objects directly. Apps that use OG objects/actions for sharing can still use the helper methods in the ShareOpenGraphObject and ShareOpenGraphAction classes to build an OG object/action. This allows developers to use ProGuard on their entire project.
- UiLifecycleHelper removed - This is removed and the various onActivityResult or handleOnActivityResult calls for passing results for login or the dialogs are now in the CallbackManager class.
- LoginFragment - Has been removed.
- Picker fragments - Have been removed.
- Sharing
- Sharing Classes - Many types for Sharing have been modified. See the Sharing on Android.
- Dialog Changes - All *Dialog classes are converted to use FacebookCallback and CallbackManager.
- Automatic Web Fallback - ShareDialog and AppInviteDialog automatically fall back to using a web dialog if the Facebook app is not present on device. See Sharing on Android , Built-In Share Fallbacks.
- Login
- AccessToken now has userId.
- Replacement Classes - Session and UserSettingsFragment have been removed and replaced by the LoginManager and AccessToken classes. LoginActivity is replaced by FacebookActivity.
- Error-Handling
- FacebookRequestError - Error classification has been updated.
- Error Handling - Is updated, including new ways to handle errors using the SDK. See Using the Graph API, Android, Handling Errors and Troubleshooting.
New in Facebook SDK for Android 3.23.1 (Mar 13, 2015)
- Added:
- Added support for hosting a Like button in a Fragment.
- Fixed:
- For apps with publish permissions, tapping the Like button won't mistakenly bring up the Like dialog.
- Audience Network:
- Fixed
- Always send Advertising ID to server to enable cross device opt-out.
New in Facebook SDK for Android 3.23.0 (Feb 6, 2015)
- Added:
- Added gzip compression to Request object expect when there are attachments.
- Modified:
- Removed the deprecated methods Settings.getShouldAutoPublishInstall and Settings.setShouldAutoPublishInstall. The auto-publish behavior has been removed. Apps should explicitly indicate events by calling AppEventsLogger.activateApp().
- Fixed:
- Fixed JavaDoc for NativeAppCallContentProvider. PR 408.
- Fixed JavaDoc for Session.StatusCallback.
- Fixed certain AppEventsLogger behavior for app install reporting.
- Fixed an issue that prevented LikeView to be used in Dialogs.
New in Facebook SDK for Android 3.22.0 (Jan 7, 2015)
- Facebook SDK:
- Added
- Added video messaging with Facebook Messenger.
- Added an option to use video Url for the share dialog.
- Added javadoc for StatusCallback.call method.
- Modified
- Moved to the latest version of Gradle and Android build tools. Pull Request 407.
- Fixed
- Fixed link in README.mdown. Pull Request 405.
- Audience Network:
- Modified
- Allow a native ad to be loaded if device screen is off.
- Fixed
- Fixed an auto-refresh related crash for the rectangle format.
- Reduce load on package manager to prevent a PackageManager Runtime Exception.
New in Facebook SDK for Android 3.21.1 (Dec 6, 2014)
- Facebook SDK:
- Modified
- Modified the dependency format for the android support library.
- Audience Network:
- Added
- Auto-refresh capabilities for the new rectangle ad format.
- Fixed
- Fix issue preventing subsequent manual calls to loadAd() on the new rectangle ad format.
New in Facebook SDK for Android 3.21.0 (Dec 2, 2014)
- Added:
- VideoShareDialogBuilder to allow sharing videos via the Share Dialog.
- Fixed:
- Fixed an issue with page like state on app restart.
- Pull Request 395. Fix resource leak issue for cursors.
- Pull Request 399. Dead code elimination FacebookDialog.java.
- Pull Request 401. Support ContextWrapper objs with LoginButton.
- Audience Network:
- Added
- Support for a larger banner ad format, with height of 250 and flexible width between 300 and 360: AdView adViewRectangle = new AdView(context, “YOUR_PLACEMENT_ID”, AdSize.RECTANGLE_HEIGHT_250)
- Optional OnTouchListener for NativeAd to let clients subscribe to touch events for custom animations, etc
- Modified
- Preload interstitial ads for better performance
- A more polished sample app
- Fixed
- IntentReceiver leak
New in Facebook SDK for Android 3.20.0 (Nov 5, 2014)
- Modified:
- v3.20 of the SDK targets v2.2 of the Graph API.
- Fixed:
- Fixed bug in Requests dialog where certain cancellations were treated as errors instead of cancellations.
- Pull request 315: Fixed retry logic for failing Async Tasks.
- Pull request 383: Added the Maven repository declaration to the facebook project explicitly, for the benefit of developers who only include that project. Also updated the plugins in gradle settings to not use the deprecated style.
- Pull request 389: Fix NPE when a networking error results in an empty error.
- Fixing NPE-s in AuthorizationClient and Session
- Other stability fixes.
- Audience Network:
- Fixed: Internal and stability improvements.
New in Facebook SDK for Android 3.19.1 (Oct 17, 2014)
- Added:
- Updated a gradle task to upload to maven.
- Modified:
- Updated to gradle 0.12.2.
- The WebDialog's registered listeners will get a "cancelled" error if their app explicitly calls the dismiss method.
- Fixed:
- The LikeView's behavior in the web-dialog path has been fixed for the case where the user had already liked the object for which the dialog has been presented. The OS-back button and the top-left-dialog-close button will both behave the same as the "Back" button in the dialog. This means that the LikeView will reflect the like-state that was displayed in the web-dialog when either of those two buttons are tapped.
- Pull request 299, Fixing NPE for Motorola devices.
- Pull request 364, Fixing WebDialog cancel.
- Fixing NPE in PlacePickerActivity.
- Fixed an issue preventing the Google Advertising ID from being accessed when the Facebook app wasn't installed on the device.
New in Facebook SDK for Android 3.19.0 (Oct 3, 2014)
- Added:
- Added the Like button for Android.
- Deprecated:
- Settings.setIsLoggingEnabled is deprecated, Settings.setIsDebugEnabled should be used instead.
- Fixed:
- Fixed issue 354, NullPointerException on GraphAction publish.
- Pull request 346 accepted, using match_parent instead of fill_parent.
- Pull request 378 accepted, fixed typo.
New in Facebook SDK for Android 3.18.1 (Sep 26, 2014)
- Facebook SDK:
- Fixed
- Fixed bug that prevents some app events from being logged
- Audience Network:
- Added
- Added onLoggingImpression callback for AdListener
- Fixed
- Fixed resizeAdView method
- Close cursor when getting attribution from FB4A
New in Facebook SDK for Android 3.18 (Sep 4, 2014)
- Modified:
- Improvements on the Audience Network sample apps, added sample to insert native ad in ListView.
- Fixed:
- Fixed threading issue where WebViewCoreThread will consume CPU even after WebView is destroyed.
- Fixed use case of getting user agent without creating a WebView.
New in Facebook SDK for Android 3.17.2 (Sep 2, 2014)
- Added:
- Added App Links Analytics.
New in Facebook SDK for Android 3.17.1 (Aug 8, 2014)
- Modified:
- Fixed logging of app activate events.
New in Facebook SDK for Android 3.17 (Aug 8, 2014)
- Added:
- Added the default_audience dialog oauth param.
- Added Settings.setIsLoggingEnabled method to enable logging. This can be used as a workaround for the Gradle debug/release propagation issue
- Added application session events which tracks application session through onResume and onPause.
- Added getErrorUserMessage, getErrorUserTitle and getErrorIsTransient methods are added to FacebookRequestError.
- Modified:
- Moved to the Graph API v2.1.
- The minimum supported SDK version is updated to 9.
- RPS Sample app is updated to use App Links instead of Deeplinks.
- Fixed:
- Deadlock in AppEventsLogger at application starts
- AppEventsLogger.logEvent raises NullPointerException if facebook app is not installed
- Fixed compilation warnings,
New in Facebook SDK for Android 3.16 (Jul 19, 2014)
- Added:
- New APIs to FriendPickerFragment to allow for taggable friends and invitable friends
- Allow for OG actions to take inline objects
- Modified:
- Removed publishInstall (use activateApp instead)
- Removed GraphAPI, ProfilePicture, and SessionLogin samples
- Fixed:
- Pull Request 361
- Impression logging improvements for audience network.
New in Facebook SDK for Android 3.15 (Jun 13, 2014)
- Modified:
- The native ad API was changed to make it easier on logging the impression and handling the click. We removed the 'logImpression()' and 'handleClick()' functions in favor for ones that allow you to register the ad view. This will enable the SDK to handle the impression logging and click automatically.
- Moved the Facebook application into a separate download
- Pull requests from vivekkiran and mstorsjo
New in Facebook SDK for Android 3.14.1 (May 13, 2014)
- Modified:
- Fixes to AudienceNetwork SDK
- Fixes to login NUX
- Pull requests from lopespm and gertcuykens
New in Facebook SDK for Android 3.14 (May 1, 2014)
- Added:
- Added AudienceNetwork SDK
- Added MessageDialogBuilder, PhotoMessageDialogBuilder, OpenGraphDialogBuilder to allow sharing links, photos, and open graph stories through the Message Dialog.
- Added Bolts SDK
- Added FacebookAppLinkResolver
- Added versioning to SDK request calls
- Ability to query the session for Permissions granted and declined
- Modified:
- SDK will default all calls to Graph API 2.0
- LoginButton will now use the New Login.
- Removed Migration handling code
- Updated samples
New in Facebook SDK for Android 3.8 (Mar 25, 2014)
- Added:
- Added PhotoShareDialogBuilder to allow sharing photos via the Share Dialog.
- Modified:
- Updated the fetchDeferredAppLinkData method to pull from the server, and improved how attribution identifiers are fetched.
- Fixed:
- Disables form data saving in the WebView-based Login dialog
New in Facebook SDK for Android 3.7 (Feb 22, 2014)
- Modified:
- Updated Scrumptious sample app to attach default images to all meals.
- Updated server endpoint to use graph-video for video uploads.
- Added:
- Added a ProgressCallback to Request and RequestBatch so callers can monitor upload progress.
- Added new constructors to allow WebDialog builders to launch dialogs without a Session.
- Fixed:
- Fixed potential ConcurrentModificationException when the Session.StatusCallbacks are run during session state changes.
New in Facebook SDK for Android 3.6 (Feb 22, 2014)
- Modified:
- AppEventsLogger is now out of Beta, setLimitEventUsage is deprecated and moved to Settings as setLimitEventAndDataUsage.
- Added:
- Added setSelection methods on FriendPickerFragment to allow pre-selection of friends.
- Added example use of setSelection API in Friend Picker Sample
- Added support for Gradle.
- Fixed:
- Fixed bug in WebDialogs where the dialog would not display properly for large displays with soft keyboards.
- Fixed bug where the callback for NewPermissionsRequest was not called.
- Fixed bug in AuthorizationClient where it can hang on orientation changes.
New in Facebook SDK for Android 3.5.2 (Feb 22, 2014)
- Fixed:
- Possible exception in activateApp() with certain old version of Facebook app for Android installed on device.
New in Facebook SDK for Android 3.5.1 (Feb 22, 2014)
- Added:
- Added an OpenGraphAction.Factory.createForPost overload that takes an action type and populates it.
- Added a FacebookDialog.OpenGraphActionDialogBuilder constructor that relies on the 'action' parameter having the correct type, and deprecated the old one, to reduce chances of incorrect actions being supplied to the Share Dialog.
- Added FacebookDialog.OpenGraphActionDialogBuilder.setImageAttachmentFilesForAction and setImageAttachmentFilesForObject overloads that allow providing attachments as a File rather than a Bitmap.
- Modified:
- Calls to AppEventsLogger.activateApp will only generate logged events if at least five minutes have elapsed since the last time one was logged, to avoid false reporting of activations during normal use of an app.
- Request.newCustomAudienceThirdPartyIdRequest will now honor the setting specified via AppEventsLogger.setLimitEventUsage.
- Fixed:
- Possible exceptions during authentication, app events logging, and file caching.
New in Facebook SDK for Android 3.5 (Aug 21, 2013)
- Added:
- Added support for Native Share Dialog.
- Added FacebookDialog, FacebookDialog.Callback, FacebookDialog.ShareDialogBuilder, FacebookDialog.OpenGraphActionDialogBuilder classes to represent Native Share Dialogs.
- Added OpenGraphObject and OpenGraphObject.Factory classes to represent an Open Graph Object (to be used with the Object API as well as the Native Share Dialog).
- Added GraphObject.getPropertyAs, GraphObject.getPropertyAsList helper methods to cast the property directly to a type.
- Added OpenGraphAction.getType, OpenGraphAction.setType, OpenGraphAction.getData, OpenGraphAction.setData methods, and OpenGraphAction.Factory class to better represent an Open Graph Action.
- Added Request.newPostOpenGraphObjectRequest, Request.newDeleteObjectRequest, Request.newUpdateOpenGraphObjectRequest methods to support the Object API.
- Added overload to Request.newStatusUpdateRequest method with place ID and user IDs to allow for tagging.
- Added AppEventsLogger and AppEventsConstants classes to allow for different flushing methods and log persistence to support asynchronous insights logging.
- Added overloads to NewPermissionsRequest constructor, OpenRequest.setPermissions, LoginButton.setReadPermissions, LoginButton.setPublishPermissions, UserSettingsFragment.setReadPermissions, UserSettingsFragment.setPublishPermissions methods to take a String... in addition to a List.
- Added ProfilePictureView.setDefaultProfilePicture to allow a different default blank picture while a user's profile picture is being loaded.
- Added overloaded Request.newCustomAudienceThirdPartyIdRequest methods to support App User IDs in Android. For more information see App User IDs for Custom Audiences
- Added Settings.setFacebookDomain to allow overriding the base Facebook domain.
- Added RPS sample app to demonstrate the Native Share Dialog and Object API.
- Added support for photo uploads in the Scrumptious sample.
- Modified:
- Removed Hackbook sample.
- Removed BooleanOG sample.
- More accurate output from FacebookRequestError.toString.
- More accurate exceptions from Session.
- Deprecated all Request.execute*RequestAsync methods. Prefer to use the executeAsync method on the request instance instead.
- Deprecated the InsightsLogger class. Prefer to use AppEventsLogger instead.
- Deprecated all publishInstall related methods in Settings. Prefer to use AppEventsLogger.activateApp instead.
- Updated PlacePickerFragment UI.
- WebDialogs no longer take up the full screen for large screen devices, and will instead be scaled to be in the middle of the screen.
- Updated LoginButton with new Facebook branding assets, changed the default "Log in" text to be "Log in with Facebook".
- Fixed:
- Catch and propagate SecurityExceptions during request processing instead of silently ignoring.
- Only call LoginButton's OnErrorListener if there's no Session.Callback registered with the session, otherwise it led to double handling of errors.
- Session.closeAndClearTokenInformation now also clears image caches used by the SDK.
New in Facebook SDK for Android 3.0.2 (Aug 21, 2013)
- Modified:
- Updated the sample app builds to work with ADT 22
New in Facebook SDK for Android 3.0.1 (Aug 21, 2013)
- Added:
- Settings.publishInstallAndWaitForResponse() to manually publish install attribution and return the server response.
- Settings.publishInstallAsync() overloaded with Request.Callback to allow for handling the server response.
- Settings.getSdkVersion() to provide the current SDK version.
- Settings.getMigrationBundle() to provide the current migration bundle supported by the SDK.
- Modified:
- LoginButton respects the button text for non-default style.
- UiLifecycleHelper monitors currently active session only when the activity is foreground.
- The Web View Login dialog includes the token information for scenarios where new permissions are being requested. This avoids having the user having to enter their login credentials whenever new permissions are requested for a session.
- Updated error strings for authentication-related issues when making a request.
- Fixed:
- Session.requestNewPermissions() now properly calls Session.StatusCallback.
- Properly handle null messages passed in to Utility.logd().
- Handling of NullPointerException when Utility.publishInstall() called.
- Handling of NullPointerException when user presses 'back' during Session.open().
- Properly handle the cancel flow by calling the onCancel listener for the legacy facebook.authorize() method.
New in Facebook SDK for Android 3.0 (Aug 21, 2013)
- Added:
- Added support for Android native Login Dialog
- Added support for authentication via an Android service if the Facebook app already has an access token for the user
- Added category support to FacebookRequestError
- Requesting new permissions now validates that re-authenticated user is same as original user
- Added batch-level callbacks to RequestBatch
- Modified:
- AccessToken: publicly documented
- AccessTokenSource: removed FACEBOOK_APPLICATION. Added FACEBOOK_APPLICATION_WEB, FACEBOOK_APPLICATION_NATIVE, FACEBOOK_APPLICATION_SERVICE.
- DialogError: deprecated all methods
- FacebookActivity: removed and replaced by UiLifecycleHelper
- FacebookError: Deprecated all methods
- FacebookRequestError: Added getUserActionMessageId, shouldNotifyUser, getCategory
- FacebookSdkVersion: no longer public
- LoggingBehaviors: Renamed to LoggingBehavior
- LoginButton: Added getDefaultAudience and setDefaultAudience
- LoginFragment: Renamed to UserSettingsFragment. Added getDefaultAudience and setDefaultAudience
- NonCachingTokenCachingStrategy: New class
- RequestBatch: added addCallback, removeCallback, Callback inner class
- Session: removed openForRead(Activity), openForRead(Fragment), two overloads of openActiveSession that were missing the SessionCallback parameter, and open. Renamed reauthorizeForRead and reauthorizeForPublish to requestNewReadPermissions and requestNewPublishPermissions. Renamed ReauthorizeRequest to NewPermissionsRequest. Renamed openActiveSession(Context) to openActiveSessionFromCache. Moved getShouldAutopublishInstall from Builder to Settings
- SessionDefaultAudience: updated value names - e.g. OnlyMe to ONLY_ME
- Settings: added getShouldAutoPublishInstall and setShouldAutoPublishInstall
- UiLifecycleHelper: new class used to add Session support to Activity subclasses
- Util: deprecated all methods
New in Facebook SDK for Android 3.0 Beta 2 (Aug 21, 2013)
- Added:
- {LoginButton,LoginFragment}.setLoginBehavior to be able to specify the login behavior for the session that will be opened.
- Session status callback can be set for LoginButton and LoginFragment.
- AccessTokenSource class to identify the source of a Facebook access token.
- FacebookRequestError to describe error details for requests.
- Session.openWithImportedAccessToken to facilitate token import from a previous version of an app.
- WebDialog to support web dialogs including Feed and Request dialogs. WebDialog includes theme support via constructor.
- Modified:
- Refactored namespace com.facebook to add .model and .widget. Some classes have moved accordingly.
- TokenCache: moved TokenCache.{get,put}IsSSO to {get,put}Source.
- ProfilePictureView: moved {get,set}UserID to {get,set}ProfileID.
- PickerFragment is now base class for pickers instead of interface.
- Settings.publishInstall moved to two new methods: Settings.publishInstallAsync and Settings.publishInstallAndWait providing asynchronous and synchronous options to publish install attribution.
- Renamed FacebookServiceErrorException to FacebookServiceException. The error is now represented in an FacebookRequestError object.
- GraphObjectWrapper moved to GraphObject.Factory. To create a GraphObject, use GraphObject.Factory.create().
- ProfilePictureView: profile photos are now square by default, i.e., isCropped() returns true by default.
- Deprecated the rest of the Facebook class. Previously the facebook.dialog() methods were not deprecated. You can use the new WebDialog class to implement facebook.dialog() functionality.
- TestSession is now public.