Get Reactions from Timeline Post via Facebook Graph API – Swift – iOS

Facebook Reactions
Facebook Reactions

New version of SDK is 4.16.x(Swift) and Graph API Version is 2.8.
With the Graph API 2.6 Facebook has given support to fetch (read only) the Reactions on Timeline Posts.

Post is updated for iOS 10 and Swift 3

API documentation is available here.

Let’s learn how to get reactions from the post

Install pods

Login with Facebook

I have already written a tutorial on Facebook Login.

Get Facebook Posts via Graph API

We can get the Facebook post via graph API : /me/posts for that we have to add user_posts permission with login.

Get Reactions from one of the Post

We can get the Facebook post reactions via graph API : /{post-id}/reactions. We have to pass parameters like fields and summary as described in getReactions function.
Note : Here I am writing sample for only first post.

Response should be like

Type of reactions : NONE, LIKE, LOVE, WOW, HAHA, SAD, ANGRY

#Like #Share #React 🙂 😛 😀
Happy coding 🙂

How to use Alamofire and SwiftyJSON with Swift? – Swift 3 – iOS 10 – Xcode 8

Swift JSON
Swift JSON

Alamofire is an HTTP networking library written in Swift.
SwiftyJSON makes it easy to deal with JSON data in Swift.

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Create your own Slider menu (Drawer) in Swift

This article is updated with Swift 4 – Xcode 9 – iOS 11

Why to use a library everytime?

Slider Menu (Drawer)
Slider Menu (Drawer)

Let’s create our own Slide Menu (Drawer) in Swift 4.
1. Create New Project in Xcode 9 with Swift Language
2. Design the Menu in UIViewController
Menu UIViewController
Menu UIViewController

Declaration of Variables and Protocols (Delegate) :

Following method is for updating the Items in the Menu :

Following method is for click event and animation :


3. Now we will create a Base UIViewController to use anywhere in the project which control the delegate of menu.

First we will create this 3 lines Drawer Icon via Code
Preview_Slider_Drawer_ICon

Delegate (Protocol) method call :

To open a view controller by identifier :
Set the Restoration Identifier and Storyboard Identifier. If current view is open then we will not open it once again for that we have to check via Restoration Identifier.

4. Now We will assign this drawer to any of the UIViewController
We have to use only one method to add drawer (slide menu) self.addSlideMenuButton()


Source Code is available at the Github AKSwiftSlideMenu

GitHub AKSwiftSlideMenu Releases
GitHub AKSwiftSlideMenu Releases

You can download for versions of Swift 2, Swift 3 or Swift 4. From Releases Tab at GitHub AKSwiftSlideMenu.

I have uploaded a video for easy way to integrate AKSwiftSlideMenu in your project :


Check other blog posts about Swift

Happy Coding 🙂