Social App Development : Build Your First Facebook Application in 20 Minutes

Build your first Facebook application using HTML and JavaScript in about 20 minutes. With its easy to understand steps and illustrated examples this short ebook walks you through your first Facebook app. 30 Pages.

Readers should know how to create, edit, and manage files and should have a basic understanding of HTML and JavaScript. The book covers the following topics.

- How to create a simple "hello world" web page
- How to create a canvas application on the Facebook platform
- How to create a page for that application
- How to make your application work in a tab
- How to detect if a user "likes" the page your application is on
- How to create a "share" button that will post a message on a users wall
- Information on SSL security (now required for all applications)

Third edition; updated November 2012.