The Facebook SDK for Unity Michael Herring

Unity Technologies Japan

Unite Japan 2014

Cool Facebook Game

Cool Mobile Game

Unity

Facebook SDK Facebook SDK For

Unity

Why Facebook?

A Huge Audience

Over 1 billion users

375 million playing games

735 million referrals…daily!

The Facebook Canvas

Games On Facebook

Dedicated games/apps sections

Games On Facebook

Game posts are normal Facebook posts, like shares or pictures

Support For Unity Games

Unity-specific Install Pages

Support For Unity Games

Unity-specific Install Pages

Payments Integration

• Works on Facebook Canvas

• Simple API

• Facebook handles the details

Integrating Your Game Configure and Login

Perform API Requests

Post Game Activity

Configure Your Game

Configure Your Game

Delegate-Focused API

Delegate Types

public delegate void InitDelegate() public delegate void HideUnityDelegate(bool isUnityShown) public delegate void FacebookDelegate(FBResult result)

One Universal Parameter Type class FBResult : IDisposable { // exposes three relevant properties: public Texture2D Texture, public string Text, public string Error }

Login With Facebook

• Low-friction

• No need for another account

FB.Init

FB.Login

FB.Logout

Use Facebook’s Normal API Calls

• FB.API

• Convert data types where appropriate

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api

Deep Linking

Use Facebook’s Normal API Documentation

• FB.GetDeepLink

• Configure your app within Unity, and on Facebook Dev Portal

Fullscreen Dialogs

Limited Now, Expanding Fast

• Currently only for Canvas-deployed apps

• Only for “Feed” and “Request” dialogs

Facebook SDK 5.xβ

Coming Soon!

• iOS “Cold Starts”

• Better Android login

• Access graph data from within the editor!

• Smaller SDK file size

• Updated underlying SDKs

Let’s Get Started!

http://developers.facebook.com

http://github.com/fbsamples/friendsmash-unity/