Question

You can integrate Facebook Connect in your iPhone application to interact with Facebook and perform operations like updating status, posting link etc.

To post status update to Facebook, you require extended permissions. To get extended permissions Facebook Connect shows a dialog for authentication (with username and password field).

I want to use my custom view to get Facebook username and password just once and store it in a local database (or NSUserDefaults), so that i can use these credentials to perform operations like updating status and posting link without showing the authentication dialog ever again – even when user quit’s and relaunches the application the next day.

Can i bypass the built-in Permissions Dialog and perform the
operations like posting the status and
posting links to Facebook in the
background?

1. Authenticate using pre-saved credentials, and on success
2. Update Facebook status

I can do that with Twitter. It doesn’t require me to show any authentication/permissions dialog to authenticate before posting the tweets.

Any ideas? Thanks.

Note: Editted the post to make it clear.

Answer 1

I wouldn’t recommend it. Probably a violation of the API’s terms of use.