I am developing an application in which user can share messages with his/her Facebook friends. I am using Facebook API for Android.
I can able to authenticate user, as well as I can get my friend list as a Facebook user and also post message on wall, but I am looking for sending private message to my friends and I didn't get any solution for that, so can any body help me, how can I achieve this?
It is not possible to send private messages on the behalf of the user using the graph api.
You should however be able to use the Send Dialog, though I haven't tried it on android, but it should be something like:
Bundle params = new Bundle();
params.putString("to", "USER_ID");
params.putString("name", "TITLE HERE");
params.putString("link", "A URL"); // this link param is required
facebook.dialog(context, "send", params, new DialogListener() {
@Override
public void onComplete(Bundle values) {
....
}
@Override
public void onFacebookError(FacebookError error) {}
@Override
public void onError(DialogError e) {}
@Override
public void onCancel() {}
});
Another approach you can use is the Chat API with which you can send messages on the behalf of the user, it requires the xmpp_login permission and you to implement an xmpp client.
Since this dialog is not supported yet in android, you have 3 options:
xmpp_login and add a xmpp client (i.e.: asmack) and with that you can implement your own "Send Message" dialog.