ngCordova / commands fail while installing Facebook Plugin Android

Mik378 · October 29, 2014, 2:45pm

I’m following the ngCordova documentation to install FacebookConnect plugin in Android context.

So I typed the following command:

sudo cordova -d plugin add https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap-facebook-plugin.git --variable APP_ID="123" --variable APP_NAME="MyAppName"

And it generates the folder com.phonegap.plugins.facebookconnect.
The documentation does not mention it.
So the specified command failed.

Is it normal?

Mik378 · October 29, 2014, 7:03pm

I found the trick.

The ngCordova documentation related to Android and Facebook should be updated to this (at the very bottom):

github.com

Wizcorp/phonegap-facebook-plugin/blob/develop/platforms/android/README.md#setup-without-eclipse-just-cli

# Facebook Requirements and Set-Up [Android]

To use this plugin you will need to make sure you've registered your Facebook app with Facebook and have an APP_ID (https://developers.facebook.com/apps).

If you plan on rolling this out on Android, please note that you will need to [generate a hash of your Android key(s) and submit those to the Developers page on Facebook](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/android/getting-started/facebook-sdk-for-android/) to get it working. Furthermore, if you are generating this hash on Windows (specifically 64 bit versions), please use version 0.9.8e or 0.9.8d of [OpenSSL for Windows](http://code.google.com/p/openssl-for-windows/downloads/list) and *not* 0.9.8k. Big ups to [fernandomatos](http://github.com/fernandomatos) for pointing this out!

As a convenience you can use the plugin function `facebookConnectPlugin.getApplicationSignature()` to get the hash key:

```js
facebookConnectPlugin.getApplicationSignature(function(response) {
    console.log("App signature: " + response); // copy-paste the response to the Facebook App Settings
});
```

## Example Apps

`platforms/android` and `platforms/ios` contain example projects and all the native code for the plugin for both Android and iOS platforms. They also include versions of the Android and iOS Facebook SDKs. These are used during automatic installation.

For Android sample app remember to configure the project with your FB app id in the `res/values/facebookconnect.xml` file. For example:

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mhartington · October 30, 2014, 4:38pm

Would you mind putting together a pull request for this?

Mik378 · October 31, 2014, 2:48am

Yes of course.

It’s done: https://github.com/driftyco/ng-cordova/pull/409

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