Thursday, February 18, 2016

Emotion and special characters for Facebook post

Do you like to see a post on Facebook with emotion or special characters? They will make your post more attractive. Especially if you want to promote your post in a marketing campaign.

Below is list of fantastic characters that you can use:

1. Miscellaneous
☻ ♦ ♣ ♠ ♥ ♂ ♀ ♪ ♫ ☼  ✿ ⊰ ⊱ ✪ ✣ ✤ ✥ ✦ ✧ ✩ ✫ ✬ ✭ ✯ ✰ ✱ ✲  ❃ ❂ ❁ ❀ ✿ ✶ ❉ ❋ ❖ ⊹⊱✿ ✿ ⊰ ⊹ ☆ 🐵 🏪 🍉 👵 👒 🎢 🎈 🐘 💠 😢 🎅 👏 ☝ 💣 🍴 🆒 😌 👲 📡 ☚ 웃 유 ☠ ☯ ☢ ☣ Σ π Ω ♤ ♧ ♡ ♢ ☦ ✞ ⌘ ✡ ✄ ✐ ∞ ▲ ▼ ◎ ☭  卐 ☪  ™ ¿ ¡ ½ ⅓ ⅔ ¼ № ❝ ❞ ❖  ⚔ ⚖ ⚛ ♲ ⚤  ¶ § ✱ ✲ ❊ ❋ ✻ ✼ ✽ ✵ ✺ ❃ ❅ ❆ ᔓ ᔗ҉ ✾ ❀ ❁ ✿ ⢏ ★ ☆ ✡ ✩ ❂ ✪ ✫ ✬ ✭ ✮ ✯ ✰ ✶ ✷ ✸ ✹ ☏ ☠ ☢ ☤ ☪ ✎ ✐ ✑  ✆ ☃ ☄ ☂ ⍭ ☣ ☫  ☬ ☭ ☮ ✇ ☯ ☸

2. Love
❥ ❣ ♡ ღ ❦ ♂ ♀ 웃 유

3. Stars & Flowers
✪ ✩ ✰ ✫ ✬ ✭ ★ ⋆ ✢ ✣ ✤ ✥ ❋ ✦ ✧ ✱ ✶ ✷  ✸ ✺ ✻  ❈ ❉ ❊ ✽ ✾ ✿ ❁ ❃ ❋ ❀

4. Weather
☼  ❅ ☃ ℃ ℉ ϟ

5. Chess
♚ ♛ ♜ ♝ ♞ ♟ ♔ ♕ ♖ ♗ ♘ ♙

6. Cards
♠    ♣   ♥   ♦   ♤   ♧   ♡   ♢

7. Random
ツⓛ ⓞ ⓥ ⓔ ♡ ღ ☼★ ٿ « » ۩ ║ █ ●

8. Religion
回 ₪ ✕ 卐 ☣ ☤ ☥ ☧ ☨ ☩ ☪ ☫ ☬ ☭

9. Music
♫ ♪ ♪ ♫

10. Telephone
✆ ☏

11. Arrows
⏎ ➟  ➢ ➣ ➤ ➥ ➦ ➧ ➨ ➚ ➘ ➙ ➛ ➜ ➝ ➞ ➸  ➲ ➴ ➵ ➶ ➷ ➸ ➹ ➺ ➻ ➼ ➽ ← ↑ → ↓ ↔      ↚ ↛ ↜ ↝ ↞ ↟ ↠ ↡ ↢ ↣ ↤ ↥ ↦ ↧ ↨ ➫ ➬ ➩ ➪ ➭ ➮ ➯ ➱  ↫ ↬ ↭ ↮ ↯ ↰ ↱ ↲

12. Hands
☜  ☞ ☟

13. Numbers
❶❷❸❹❺❻❼❽❾❿ ➀➁➂➃➄➅➆➇➈

14. Copyright
Ⓐ © ®

15. Check / tick
✘  ☒ ✓

16. Money
[̲̅$̲̅(̲̅2οο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅] [̲̅$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅] [̲̅$̲̅(̲̅5̲̅)̲̅$̲̅] [̲̅$̲̅(̲̅1̲̅)̲̅$̲̅]


17. Facemoji
You can use facemoji (a free extension on chrome) for getting other beautiful characters / stickers.

After you installing this extension, your Facebook chat box will have new broken heart icon like below:



Click it to open a windows with many beautiful characters, click to insert into the chat book. Or you can copy and paste to other post on Facebook.

Let enjoy your post on Facebook. Welcome any comment!

Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Learn ionic and cordova via Facebook login sample

Inherit from the ionic tutorial of ccoenraets and ngOpenFB of r-wettstaedt, this article will walk you through an example on using ionic and ngOpenFB to create an application with Facebook login.

1. To prepare your ionic environment, you can read my article here or follow step 1 of the tutorial of ccoenraets.

2.  Create an ionic application with sidemenu template, for example:
# ionic start TestFBLogin sidemenu

You can have a look on the application (TestFBLogin) by run the following commands:
# cd TestFBLogin
# ionic serve

3. Create Film service to query films from https://swapi.co/ (The Star Wars API):
+In the www/js directory, create a file named services.js

+In services.js, define a module named starter.services with a dependency on ngResource. In that module, define a service named Film that uses the Angular resource module to provide access to the REST services at the specified endpoint:

angular.module('starter.services', ['ngResource'])
.factory('Film', function ($resource) {
    return $resource(
      'http://swapi.co/api/films/:filmId', //url
      {}, // query parameters
      {'query': { method: 'GET', isArray: false }} //action
    );
});


+Open index.html, add a script tag <script src="lib/ionic/js/angular/angular-resource.min.js"></script> to include angular-resource.min.js (right after ionic-bundle.js) and a script tag <script src="js/services.js"></script> to include the services.js file you just created (right after app.js):

4. Create FilmsCtrl controller to manage films list view and FilmCtrl to manage film detail view, open www/js/controllers.js:
+Add starter.services as a dependency to make the Film service available to the controllers:
angular.module('starter.controllers', ['starter.services'])

+Delete PlayListsCtrl (plural), replace it with a controller named FilmsCtrl that retrieves the list of films using the Film service and stores it in a scope variable named films:
.controller('FilmsCtrl', function($scope, Film) {
    Film.query(function(data) {
        $scope.films = data.results;
    });
})


+Delete PlayListCtrl (singular), replace it with a controller named FilmCtrl that retrieves a specific film using the Film service and stores it in a scope variable named film:
.controller('FilmCtrl', function($scope, $stateParams, Film) {
    $scope.film = Film.get({filmId: $stateParams.filmId});
});


5. Create 2 templates: films.html to display a list of films, and film.html to display the details of a particular film:
+In the www/templates directory, rename playlists.html (plural) to films.html, then replace by the below template:
<ion-view view-title="Films">
  <ion-content>
    <ion-list>
      <ion-item ng-repeat="film in films | orderBy: 'release_date'"
                href="#/app/films/{{$index + 1}}">{{film.title}}</ion-item>
    </ion-list>
  </ion-content>
</ion-view>


Note:
I use $index to work around because a film doesn't have any property for indexing, it only has url property which causes difficult to get film detail info in next steps.

+ In the www/templates directory, rename playlist.html (singular) to film.html, then replace by the below template:
<ion-view view-title="Film">
  <ion-content>
    <div class="list card">
      <div class="item">
        <h2>{{film.title}}</h2>
        <p>Released: {{film.release_date}}</p>
        <p>Director: {{film.director}}</p>
      </div>
      <div class="item item-body">
        <p>{{film.opening_crawl}}</p>
      </div>
      <div class="item tabs tabs-secondary tabs-icon-left">
        <a class="tab-item">
          <i class="icon ion-thumbsup"></i>
          Like
        </a>
        <a class="tab-item">
          <i class="icon ion-chatbox"></i>
          Comment
        </a>
        <a class="tab-item">
          <i class="icon ion-share"></i>
          Share
        </a>
      </div>
    </div>
  </ion-content>
</ion-view>


6. Create routes, open app.js in www/js and do as below:
+Replace the app.playlists state with an app.films state defined as the following:
.state('app.films', {
        url: "/films",
        views: {
            'menuContent': {
                templateUrl: "templates/films.html",
                controller: 'FilmsCtrl'
            }
        }

})

+Replace the app.single state with an app.film state defined as the following:
.state('app.film', {
        url: "/films/:filmId",
        views: {
            'menuContent': {
            templateUrl: "templates/film.html",
            controller: 'FilmCtrl'
        }
        }

});

+Modify the fallback route to default to the list of films (last line in app.js):
$urlRouterProvider.otherwise('/app/films');

+Modify the side menu, open menu.html in www/templates, change the Playlists menu item to below (modify both the item label and the href):
<ion-item menu-close href="#/app/films">
          Films

</ion-item>

+You can test again this new modification to see the list of films, here is mine:


7. Now it's time to add ngOpenFB to the application:
+Follow Step 1 here to configure your Facebook App

+To install ngOpenFB to your application, run the command:
# bower install ngOpenFB

+Install the InAppBrowser plugin by cordova:
# cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-inappbrowser

+Move www/lib/ngOpenFB/oauthcallback.html to www/oauthcallback.html

+Open www/index.html, add script tags to include ngOpenFB.min.js (before app.js):
<script src="lib/ngOpenFB/ngOpenFB.min.js"></script>

+Open www/js/app.js, and add ngOpenFB as a dependency to the starter module:
angular.module('starter', ['ionic', 'starter.controllers', 'ngOpenFB'])

+In www/js/app.js, inject $openFB in the run() function declaration:
.run(function ($ionicPlatform, $openFB) {

+Call the $openFB.init() function and set your Facebook App ID in the first line of run() function:
$openFB.init( {appId: '<YOUR_APP_ID>'} );

8. Add Facebook login:
+Open www/templates/login.html, add a Login with Facebook button right after the existing Log In button:
<label class="item">
    <button class="button button-block button-positive" ng-click="fbLogin()">
    Login with Facebook
    </button>
</label>


+Open www/js/controllers.js, and add ngOpenFB as a dependency to the starter.controllers module:
angular.module('starter.controllers', ['starter.services', 'ngOpenFB'])

+Inject $openFB in the AppCtrl controller:
.controller('AppCtrl', function ($scope, $ionicModal, $timeout, $openFB) {

+Add the fbLogin function in the AppCtrl controller (right after the doLogin function):
$scope.fbLogin = function () {
    $openFB.login({scope: 'email,public_profile,user_friends'})
      .then(function(token) {
        // log in successful
        console.log('Facebook login succeeded');
        $scope.closeLogin();
        // send token to your server
      }, function(err) {
        // error logging in
        alert('Facebook login failed');
    });
};


9. Display Facebook user profile:
+Create a template for the user profile view. In the www/templates directory, create a new file named profile.html and implement it as follows:
<ion-view view-title="Profile">
    <ion-content class="has-header">
        <div class="list card">
            <div class="item">
                <h2>Name: {{user.name}}</h2>
                <p>Gender: {{user.gender}}</p>
            </div>
            <div class="item item-body">
                <img src="http://graph.facebook.com/{{user.id}}/picture?width=180&height=180"/>
            </div>
        </div>
    </ion-content>
</ion-view>


+Create a controller for the user profile view. Open www/js/controllers.js, and add the following controller:
.controller('ProfileCtrl', function ($scope, $openFB) {
    $openFB.isLoggedIn()
    .then(function(loginStatus) {
        // if logged, let get user info
        $openFB.api({path: '/me'})
        .then(function(user) {
            $scope.user = user;
        }
        , function(err) {
            alert('Facebook error: ' + err);
        });
     
    } , function(err) {
        // not logged in
        alert('Please use Facebook login!');
    });
})


+Create a route for the user profile view. Open www/js/app.js, and add the following route:
.state('app.profile', {
      url: "/profile",
      views: {
        'menuContent': {
            templateUrl: "templates/profile.html",
            controller: "ProfileCtrl"
        }
      }
})


+Open www/templates/menu.html, and add the following menu item:
<ion-item menu-close href="#/app/profile">
    Profile
</ion-item>


+Let test again your application to see if it works, here is my application in Profile page:

10. Build and test in real device or emulator
+iOS:
# ionic platform add ios
# ionic build ios
# ionic run ios


+Android:
# ionic platform add android
# ionic build android
# ionic run android

Here is my Android version:

You can download its source code from my GitHub.

That's all. Welcome any comments!


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