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2013-12-30 13:41:30 +0300
Hello !
As the developer of Friends for Sailfish, a Facebook client, I can answer about some of these feature requests. This is a rather tough problem because:
- Only Jolla can provide deep system integration (3rd developers don't have access to many API like application-plugins, or accounts yet)
- Only developers can do what they want with Facebook API (Jolla need to be sure that Facebook validates the implementation, so that they have the right to use the logo, the name etc.)
So I can develop a Facebook client, but it won't be as integrated as what Jolla is attempting to do. Jolla, in their side, needs approval, and my application, that might not be coherent with Facebook experience, might not get approved.
About the technical side now, there are other problems. To prevent people doing bad things with their API (like stalking an user's friends, or stealing data), Facebook API is very limited. The homescreen feed, for instance, is a pain to use and so limited, that you don't really get a decent experience from a 3rd party Facebook client.
Messaging API too, is limited, since the XMPP based one prevent group chatting, and with the graph-based one, you don't have a chat like experience (you have to pull data from servers, it is not pushing).
So basically, complex question. Hope it got solved one day.
Perhaps integrate this within the notifications page, Like how Twitter is currently working showing tweets have it show the posts from people and if you click on the name it shows there recent pages... i know this seems quite complicated to do but would be nice to have it like that.
Gurdeep409 ( 2013-12-25 19:20:20 +0300 )edit@Guardeep409 I'd love to have something like that in Jolla / SailfishOS ;)
foss4ever ( 2013-12-29 05:04:08 +0300 )edit@cquence@jjaone You could consider copying your question text as an answer, and forming a question which is a question. Now you've kind of anwered already in your question.
simo ( 2013-12-30 07:03:16 +0300 )edit@simo I re-wrote the question title, but IMHO it is pretty ckear that we want a native facebook client that works seamlessly with Feeds screen, and system notifications, also with photo sharing, private and group messaging features. There is a tag 'feature-request' that also indicates that this feature is nissing from SailfishOS currently.
foss4ever ( 2013-12-30 12:15:57 +0300 )edit@simo My comment tries to communicate that this is actually needed, and would make the usability of Jolla device much.'smarter' and easier to use with many.SoMe-services (here FB), and spesifically implemented so that it is integrated to system UI featurrs.
foss4ever ( 2013-12-30 12:19:39 +0300 )edit