Does my Facebook app also work in iOS / android apps?

Question

Can a custom FB web application be used in iOS / android FB apps? The documents are not very clear. You can bookmark your own applications, but I want to have a bookmark pointing to our custom FB web application canvas. The goal is to develop an application that can be used on all platforms.

Answer 1

I did some tests, and I could run a non-native application from a facebook application or web page, and it is not easy to download a facebook web page in PC mode from a mobile device.

Facebook's official documentation for iOS states:

When a user searches the Facebook application, your application will be visible if it passes the usage threshold. The search results will display applications configured to support SSO. When a user selects your application from the search results, he will be redirected to your application. If the user has previously allowed your application, they will be authenticated at the launch of your application.

I assume that for Android it will be so. Therefore, if you are developing your own application that displays only the WebView point for your website (quite simply, by the way, in iOS and android ), work without problems.

Answer 2

Usually Facebook APP applications are on Flash, so I don’t think it will work on iOS (please correct me if I am mistaken in the release of Flash).

On Android, this would be very simple, bearing in mind that it works with Flash with 0 problems. You just need to implement WebView on your layout and specify the URL of your facebook application.

In general, you can really create applications that work on both systems, iOS and Android, playing with webView. However, you should be aware that they will never work as if they were written based on native code in terms of performance.

Answer 3

From what I saw, if the developer already has a mobile version of their application, which is also located on Facebook, they can create a tab for it that will appear on Facebook for iOS and Facebook for Android. I do not think that you can bookmark the version of webapp that will be displayed on the mobile phone. However, users can bookmark your web browser in their browsers.