Monday, April 7, 2014

How To Start With Facebook Application Development

Applications are the center stage of the technology world. They have captured the attention of all the people using smart devices. There are very less people who are not using smart apps in order to make their life easy and organized. Facebook has emerged as the most powerful social media tool. Clubbing the highest technology development, applications, and this powerful social networking tool called Facebook is the process known as Facebook application development. Creating a facebook application helps developers in deeply integrating into the core Facebook experience.

A facebook application can integrate with various aspects of this social networking website such as News Feed and Notifications. All the core Facebook Platform technologies including Social Plugins, Graph API and Platform Dialogs can be utilized to create FB apps.



Facebook Applications Development
Facebook Applications Development


Following are the three main elements of facebook apps development process
  1. Canvas Page: It is the page on which your app will get loaded.
  2. Social Channels- These are the key channels that will augment the growth of your user base and also help in retaining the interest of existing users.
  3. Analytics - This helps in tracking the results by helping you access the analytics data for your app.
Gaming apps are the most popular app category on Facebook. Game developers can add social features into their games by facilitating rich social interactions between and among players. This helps in enhancing virality as well as enabling organic growth. However, prior to proceeding to create an app you must determine which types of app can be helpful for the growth of your business. You will also have to conceptualize what you wish to achieve using your Facebook app.

You must also brainstorm different aspects of the application. This will help you evolve various ideas regarding the app and help you improve its design. The interactivity of the app must also be well planned. You must determine how your app will communicate with users who use install your app. You must decide the colors, fonts etc that you will be using. All this will help impact the design.