unable to upgrade to FB SDK (iOS) 8.1.0

[Zvika88]

Trying to mitigate FB's warnings about out of date SDK , I tried updating the pod reference from the previous (working!) 5.7.0 to the latest 8.1.0 for FBSDKCoreKit, FBSDKLoginKit, FBSDKShareKit.

I am getting a bunch of errors in XCode when trying to build the app:

What needs to be done in order to update the SDK? What is the latest supported SDK?

Thanks!

[6ewis]

@Zvika88 did you manage to fix it? were you able to update to the latest version?

[S-Asakoto]

Faced with the same problem, but reimporting FB SDK version 5.15.1 solved the problem. This seems to be due to that FB removed these classes as obsolete in version 6 onwards, while the plugin is still using these classes. Since the versions 6 to 8 published within just a year, the author could have not noticed that. (At least version 5.15.1 was published in Jan 2020)

[rgustavsson]

Obviously the latest supported SDK for this plugin is 5.X It would be awesome if someone could manage to upgrade to the latest Facebook SDK. I might even pay you ;)

[rgustavsson]

I'll pay $500 to anyone that upgrades within 3 weeks.

[pellaras]

I'll pay $500 to anyone that upgrades within 3 weeks.

@rgustavsson: Here you go: https://github.com/pellaras/cordova-plugin-facebook4

Please pay here. ;)

[rgustavsson]

@pellaras good news! I'll test it asap :) May I ask for a clarification around the commented out code in the iOS upgrade? (FacebookConnectPlugin.m) Do you know when "share_open_graph" is used/needed?

[pellaras]

Hi @rgustavsson, not sure, but seems to be a depreciated feature: https://developers.facebook.com/community/threads/428042001393940/

xcode was complaining about that portion, and the facebook sdk change logs shows them as been removed

[rgustavsson]

@pellaras ah, thank you. So we should basically make sure that:

• I test it
• Then we merge your fork into this repo since this repo is communicated everywhere.

May I ask if you use this plugin in any project?

[pellaras]

@rgustavsson

This repo is no longer maintained, so merging it will prove challenging

Quite a few, but to be fair, mostly for analytics.

[rgustavsson]

@pellaras True!

@jeduan I'd be happy to take ownership so that this plugin stays up to date. It would be a pitty to work on different forks.

[daksamedia]

Hi @pellaras

is this repo still under your maintain? https://github.com/pellaras/cordova-plugin-facebook4

I see that repo updated 2 days ago. I'm glad if you answer me.

Thank you

[rgustavsson]

@daksamedia please follow our discussion above, we're discussing ownership/maintenance. It would be stupid not to try to align this repo with the latest development

[daksamedia]

@daksamedia please follow our discussion above, we're discussing ownership/maintenance. It would be stupid not to try to align this repo with the latest development

I see, I'd be happy if you or anyone else take this ownership / maintenance, 'cause this is one of important plugin in Cordova. Thank you for answering me.

[pellaras]

Hi @daksamedia, that's my fork and only has a few changes needed for the apps I am involved with. I wouldn't say it's actively maintained.

[noahcooper]

FYI - I've created https://github.com/cordova-plugin-facebook-connect/cordova-plugin-facebook-connect and will be working on updating it to the most recent version of the Facebook SDK.

[rgustavsson]

Everyones going to have their own fork.. Why not collaborate??

[rgustavsson]

@jeduan seems to have abandoned the ship without wanting to transfer ownership 😞

[jeduan]

@rgustavsson friendly reminder that I don’t owe you anything. Your comment comes off as extremely entitled. maintainer burnout from handling entitled GitHub posters is the main reason me and other folks have stopped working on this and other open source projects. Be better.

[rgustavsson]

@jeduan if you take the responsibility to own/maintain an open source repo then you also take the responsibility to answers requests - especially requests about helping out. I’ve tried to reach you here and via LinkedIn without any luck. I won’t apologize as I believe you can handle things better.

[jeduan]

@rgustavsson take that energy and put it in your own (open source or otherwise) projects.

[noahcooper]

This issue is fixed in the new plugin cordova-plugin-facebook-connect!

https://www.npmjs.com/package/cordova-plugin-facebook-connect