Add Facebook Login into Your App

Hai Nguyen -

Prerequisites

  • Android Studio
  • Facebook account

Register your app

When use Facebook SDK, we must be registered with Facebook. Login to Facebook Developers Website and create a new app.

Select Android on pop-up.

Enter name for your new app and select “Create New Facebook App Id”

Enter “Package Name” and “Default Activity Class Name”. Select “Next”
[![android_add_facebookom/content/images/2015/07/android_add_facebook_login_4.jpg)

In next form, enter key hashes. There are two way to get key hashes.

  • Open a terminal window and run the key tool command to generate a key has using the bebug keystore located at ~/.android/debug.keystore. This is what the command should look like.
keytool -exportcert -alias androiddebugkey -keystore ~/.android/debug.keystore | openssl sha1 -binary | openssl base64
  • You can get key hashes with source code:
try {
 PackageInfo info = getPackageManager().getPackageInfo(" net.awpspace.demo", PackageManager.GET_SIGNATURES);
 for (Signature signature: info.signatures) {
  MessageDigest md = MessageDigest.getInstance("SHA");
  md.update(signature.toByteArray());
  Log.d("KeyHash:", Base64.encodeToString(md.digest(), Base64.DEFAULT));
 }
} catch (NameNotFoundException e) {} catch (NoSuchAlgorithmException e) {}

Add Facebook SDK to your project

Add this to Mudule-level /app/build.gradle before dependencies:

repositories { mavenCentral() }

Add the compile dependency with the lastest version of the Facebook SDK in the build.gradle file:

dependencies { compile 'com.facebook.android:facebook-android-sdk:4.1.0' }

Create an Activity

Step 1: Define the layout:

Create a new layout file name main_activity.xml in res/layout. In this layout:

  • LoginButton to allow the user to login to Facebook.
  • TextView to display the result of the lastest login attempt.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout
  xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
  android:layout_width="match_parent"
  android:layout_height="match_parent"
  android:padding="16dp" >
  
  <TextView
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:id="@+id/info"
    android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
    android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
    android:textSize="18sp" />

  <com.facebook.login.widget.LoginButton 
    android:id="@+id/login_button"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_centerInParent="true" />
</RelativeLayout>

Step 2: Create the Class

Create a new java class that extends Activity and name it MainActivity.java. Declare the widget you defined in the activity’s layout as fields of this class.

private TextView info;
private LoginButton loginButton;

Declare a CallbackManager as another field.

private CallbackManager callbackManager;

The SDK needs to be initialized before using any of its methods. You can do so by calling sdkInitialize and passing the application’s context. Add the following code to the onCreate method of your Activity:

FacebookSdk.sdkInitialize(getApplicationContext());

Next, initialize your instance of CallbackManager using the CallbackManager.Factory.create method.

callbackManager = CallbackManager.Factory.create();

Call setContent to set the layout defined in the previous step as the layout of this Activity and then use findViewById to initialize the widgets.

setContentView(R.layout.main_activity);
info = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.info);
loginButton = (LoginButton) findViewById(R.id.login_button);

Register the custom callback, use the registerCallback method. The code to create and register the callback should look like:

loginButton.registerCallback(callbackManager, new FacebookCallback < LoginResult > () {
 @Override public void onSuccess(LoginResult loginResult) {}
 @Override public void onCancel() {}
 @Override public void onError(FacebookException e) {}
});

Add the following code to the onSuccess method:

info.setText( "User ID: " + loginResult.getAccessToken().getUserId() + "\n" + "Auth Token: " + loginResult.getAccessToken().getToken() );

Add the following code to the onCancel method:

info.setText("Login attempt canceled.");

Add the following code to the onError method:

info.setText("Login attempt failed.");

Tapping the login btton starts off a new Activity, which returns a result. To receive and handle the result, override the onActivityResult method of you Activity and pass its parameters to the onActivityResult method of CallbackManager.

@Override protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
  callbackManager.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);
}

Add the Facebook Application ID

The application ID you received when you registered your app should be added as a string in your project’s res/value/strings.xml. Fro this tutorial, call the string facebook_app_id.

<string name="facebook_app_id">123456908761030</string>

Edit the Manifest

Define your Activity in the AndroidManifest.xml.

<activity android:name="com.hathy.fblogin.MainActivity">
  <intent-filter>
    <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN"/>
    <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER"/>
  </intent-filter>
</activity>

Add the application ID as meta-data.

<meta-data android:name="com.facebook.sdk.ApplicationId" android:value="@string/facebook_app_id" />

Define FacebookActivity.

<activity
  android:name="com.facebook.FacebookActivity"
  android:configChanges= "keyboard|keyboardHidden|screenLayout|screenSize|orientation"
  android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Translucent.NoTitleBar"
  android:label="@string/app_name" />

Add permission for your app.

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/>

Build and Run

Your app is now complete. When you build it and deploy it on your Android device you will see the Facebook login button.

[![android_add_facebookom/content/images/2015/07/android_add_facebook_login_6.jpg)

Conclusion

In this article, you learned how to use the Facebook SDK to add Facebook Login to your Android app. To learn more about Facebook Login, you can go throught the reference for the Facebook SDK for Android.