F8 live notes
Ilya Sukhar:this is going to be a different kind of f8 - in the past we did it when we had a new product to make you change your apps
we're here to provide a stable mobile platform to build grow and monetize your apps [bye bye
The mobile ecosystem is so siloed - the mobile platformsa are all competing #indieweb
as devs we want tools that work across all these mobile platforms. FB's goal is to build the cross-platform platform
all our mobile apps are built on the same platform and APIs that you use for mobile platforms [one thing twitter stopped]
we used to have this famous mantra "move fast and break things" but fixing bugs was slowing us down
now it's "move fast with stable infra" [translation I want to be Microsoft not Yahoo, dammit]
we're introducing a 2 year API stability guarantee [he's not discontinuing Facebook XP]
we're putting People First - we serve Developers, Advertisers, but themost important people are aour users
People want more control over how apps use their data [read FB wants more vetos over apps using your data]
we know some people are scared of pressing the "Login with Facebook" button because an app might do something bad
from now on when you log into an app with facebook you can change line by line what you share with this app
in the past, apps could see not just your data but data friends have shared with you. That will change
for apps to see your friends info, they need to login too [making sure your app can't grow too fast for FB]
We added anonymous login so you can try apps without sharing your identity right away
is doing a huge pitch for facebook as a backend
there are times when you connection is really flaky and your phone falls apart, it's just a calculator
we need to make it easier to build offline apps so we added Parse local data store so your queries work well offline
I've been working with the URL for as long as I can remember. It's the fundamental unit of sharing #indieweb
it's a shame that the URL is not really a big deal on mobile [it is on android]
All these apps on mobile are stuck in their own silos [so put them in our silo instead]
when I open up links on my iPad I get stuck in a mobile web browser, why is that?
the world of mobile has no unified way to discover links across platforms [it does, it's called the web]
I'm announcing AppLinks an open standard with open source SDKs to discover and navigate deep links on mobile
got to applinks.org and mark your website up to say what your app URLs are, and we crawl them
The iOS and Android apps we ship now have applinks, so we can deep link into your apps from FB now