How to become a Facebook app developer?

Facebook applications are a great source of entertainment, fun, people engagement, marketing and business opportunities. I have more than 100 Facebook app on my personal Facebook account and I am always looking for opportunities to add new entertaining and useful apps to expand my Facebook experience.

Facebook apps are built on PHP, a very common, yet very interesting form of developer breeds. PHP developers are well versed with basic web development experience. However, their attention to the details and their skill-set is very helpful to create the best social experience for the users through Facebook apps.

If you want to become a Facebook app developer, we assume that you are already well versed with PHP, if you are not then you will have to learn it by heart. There are a lot of online resources available to learn PHP through an interactive course. You can try your hands on PHP on Codecadey, Lynda, Tuts+, and TeamTreeHouse.

If you are well versed with PHP and have been developing websites for professional clients, then all you may need to do is to follow a simple procedure to register yourself on Facebook developers page and start Facebook app development right away. You may need to accustom yourself with the Facebook developer platform, but I guess you can handle it.

To register and download the SDK for Facebook app development follow these simple steps:

• Go to developers.Facebook.com and register yourself as a programmer through your Facebook account.

• Follow the steps of the process, asking for your information.

• Once done, you will be taken to the dashboard page, where you can immediately start developing Facebook apps.

As you can see it is as simple as registering for an email address. However, the real problem is making a Facebook app that can engage people in a fun way. In our next post we will look into this matter. What a Facebook app developer may need to build a rock-star Facebook app?


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