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Using FacebookConnect with Flash

June 19, 2009
Tagged actionscript, facebook, flash

To allow your Flash site to get connected to the huge Facebook database, you need to let your Flash to communicate with the FacebookConnect API.

So far I’ve found 2 ways of doing this on the web:

• pierot’s fbflashbridge
  JavaScript is responsible for doing all sorts of Facebook calls (e.g. retrieve user info, retrieve friends list, etc) using the FacebookConnect API. Any events triggered or data returned from the Facebook calls will be passed to the Flash using ExternalInterface.
• FacebookConnect + Adobe Facebook AS3 API
  In Steven Van Hissenhoven’s sample, JavaScript is just responsible for doing the authentication using the FacebookConnect API. Once it got connected, the Flash will be responsible for making subsequent Facebook calls itself using the offcial Adobe Facebook AS3 API.

The problem with the first method is that if there were new Facebook API features released, I will always need to add a new JavaScript function to invoke that call. Using the official Adobe Facebook AS3 API ensures that I can always enjoy the latest features by updating the official API. Of course it is not fair to compare the two as the first method was introduced before the Adobe Facebook AS3 API release.

I am trying to package the code from Steven, target to write a Facebook Flash application by the end of this year!!

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