Facebook leaderboard [closed]

Question

I was wondering whether anyone had any useful guides for implementing Facebook scores in an Android game. I am currently building a profile in-game but there are lots of features in the Facebook SDK and Graph API that I don't know how to use.

Is anyone familiar with posting scores and retrieving leaderboards of your Facebook friends?

Berryberryhill

Do you have a specific question about the API? As stated, its overly broad will likely get closed. – Parrie

Well in the new Sdk what request can i do to post a score of a individual user for my game and what request can i do to receive the highscores for all the friends of the player for my game so i can show them in the menu. – Berryberryhill

Answer 1

You could make your own leaderboard - store the scores in your database, calculate rank, etc and use standard open graph actions to publish to users walls.

Alternatively, you can use Facebooks scores API which handles a lot of this for you, however it does have its limitations. You can also use the Achievements API which allows you to post stream stories to the users timeline like 'Joe just unlocked the Star Badge'.

Finally, you could use a third party tool such as Leaderboarded, although I'm not sure how relevant this is to your game.

As for useful guide - I've found it better/more relevant to provide friend leaderboards rather than global leaderboards, as these are often more interesting to the user.

Electrochemistry

thanks! I will look into the Score Api first seems to provide what i need! – Berryberryhill