Adding Social Media and Other Online Services - Marmalade SDK Mobile Game Development Essentials - page 242

3. You will now see a screen detailing all the Facebook Apps you have created,

which will be empty assuming this is the first App you have ever created!
Click on the + Create New App button to start creating a Facebook App.

4. The previous dialog box shown should now appear, minus the pink box

containing the text about verifying your account (more on this in a moment).
For the purpose of this chapter all we need to supply is the App Name value,
which is a string that will be shown to the user when our Marmalade project
first attempts to access Facebook. It therefore makes sense to use the name of
the game or perhaps your company name for this field.

5. Click the Continue button to create the Facebook App. Note that the

remaining fields can be ignored for now. The App Namespace value is used
to reference the application on Facebook as a URL or as part of an HTTP
request and is for more advanced Facebook integration. The Locale and Web
Hosting controls can also be ignored for the purposes of this chapter.

6. You will now be shown one of those annoying Captcha dialogs to prove

you are a human and not some kind of spamming web bot. Enter the words
shown in the image to proceed.

7. At this point it is likely that you will be shown the Create New App dialog

from step 4 again, this time with the text in the little pink box. This is another
security check put in place by Facebook to stop hundreds of rogue Facebook
applications from being created. You need to authorize your Facebook
account before you can create a Facebook App. I would suggest you click the
link labeled mobile phone to verify your account as it is by far the easiest
way. You will be asked to enter your mobile phone number so a text message
can be sent to you containing an authorization code that you then enter into a
dialog to verify yourself.