Facebook Connect vs facebook-android-sdk on Android

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I am trying to add a social aspect to my app where one can post there results (a common feature).

I have found some sites that describe how to do this using Facebook Connect http://www.mobisoftinfotech.com/blog/android/845/

and others, like the Facebook developer site point you towards using the SDK and downloading through Github. http://developers.facebook.com/docs/guides/mobile/

Anyone have any experience with this? What is the difference between the two options and which is better for apps?

All the other questions that seem relevant are years old.

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What is your question? Which is better? – hwrdprkns
What is the difference between the two, which is the best to use for a mobile app – easycheese

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I would recommend using the Facebook-Android-SDK for a couple reasons.

  1. It comes from Facebook themseleves. ...Perhaps this is actually a reason not to use it! :)
  2. It uses OAuth for authentication, which is good, and it is pretty easy to use.
  3. The Graph API. It is pretty robust, and also easy to use.

Please note that I have not used FB-Connect before, so I may be a bit biased...

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Facebook Connect has been deprecated and you should use the SDK - Integrating Facebook Connect with a Web Page

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I have familiary with the facebook-android-sdk I've never had a problem with it and it seems to work very well.

It doesn't really make sense not to use the native SDK unless you are using a webapp imo.

Also I think FBConnect has been deprecated.