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Documentation's a first, because there's no proper reference, and sometimes the thing you want is buried within another page. Or there are conflicts.

There's a certain lack of clarity and even when you can figure it out some of their decisions are strange. There's barely anything on performance and caching and overall they appear to have geared the API more towards the copy-paste plugin generators they have. I've never seen a 3rd party FB app (apart from the one linked on this page, Clarity I think, which I've only just heard of), and all the Android ones I came across were just site specific browsers wrapping the mobile page.

Compare it to Twitter, which has supported countless apps on practically any platform you can think of and appears to have actually considered a developer will use it. It's nicely laid out and appears to have proper thought put into it.



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