Facebook® Application Development For Dummies®

Chapter 2

Building Your First Application

In This Chapter

• Checking out the development process
• Having a place to host your app
• Setting up your development tools
• Creating a quick app

Writing a Facebook application is actually quite simple. Three steps are all you need to know and you'll be hacking like a pro on Facebook. The first step (the hardest one) is filling out the right forms during the application setup. In the second step, you can write some simple HTML or API calls that display information for the user, and for the last step, you can go to your application on Facebook.com to view and test what you just wrote!

If any of these steps sound scary, don't worry. In this chapter, I walk you through the process of getting your development environment set up and creating a simple Facebook application. And I promise that it will all seem much less scary when you're done.