I'm developing a google maps based app. I would like to integrate the capabilities of being able to see your friends location/s (similar to how you can see uber cars or fiend my friends). currently i have a facebook signin option. Does anyone know what sdk i need to integrate or the name of what this is called so that i can do further research.
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There is no way to get the location of Facebook friends, friend permissions are completely gone for privacy reasons: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/changelog
You can only get the location of an authorized User (with the user_location permission), see Facebook docs: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.2/user
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Will google+ be able to give me that capability? Facebook sign in my preferred method for user to be able to use the app. I'm also looking into Amazon AWS – Miguel Dec 13 '14 at 19:06
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i am pretty sure does not allow you to get access to the location of friends either. it would be a major privacy issue. – andyrandy Dec 14 '14 at 11:42
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how does uber, find my friends and other similar apps do it? – Miguel Dec 14 '14 at 13:35
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they are most likely using a v1.0 app – andyrandy Dec 14 '14 at 16:13