Linking to a Facebook Page from an iOS App

The Facebook app broke the old way of creating an iOS facebook page link. If the app isn't installed the old facebook link works, but when it is installed it just opens the Facebook app to the default page. Fix your app links to Facebook using this url format:

Old iOS Facebook Page Link:

http://www.facebook.com/PhotoTableApp

New iOS Facebook Page Link:

https://m.facebook.com/PhotoTableApp?_rdr

The only downside is that the user would have to login via the mobile website in order to "like" your Facebook page. It's certainly better than just seeing the "default" screen in the app. I'm not sure if the new Facebook SDK 3.1 fixes any of these issues, but I haven't seen a solution on Stackoverflow.com

Linking to a facebook page doesn't work from iOS if the new Facebook app is installed.

Linking to the mobile Facebook page with the ?_rdr flag fixes the issue.

Using the social.framework on iOS 6.0

Using the social.framework is real simple on iOS 6.0. Apple only refers to their reference, so I decided to show the code snippet example. To change between twitter and  Sina Weibo, just use the types: SLServiceTypeSinaWeibo SLServiceTypeTwitter. It just takes 10 lines of code. If you used the Twitter.framework, you can remove it and replace your Twitter code with the following code. The Social.framework will manage all social networks moving forward.

if([SLComposeViewController isAvailableForServiceType:SLServiceTypeFacebook]) {

SLComposeViewController *socialSheet = [SLComposeViewController composeViewControllerForServiceType:SLServiceTypeFacebook];

[socialSheet setInitialText:@"posted from @PhotoTable"];

[socialSheet addImage:image];

[socialSheet setCompletionHandler:^(SLComposeViewControllerResult result) {

NSLog(@"Result: %d", result);

}];

[self presentViewController:socialSheet animated:YES completion:^ {

}];

}