How to correctly initialise the SDK for iOS and Android?

[walterholohan]

Hi,

I'm just reaching out as I've been struggling to understand if I am initialising the SDK correctly as I've been unsuccessful in testing the logging of app events using the Text Event section in Events Manager. From reading the documentation I understand there are two ways of initialising the SDK:

1. Natively i.e. adding [FBSDKApplicationDelegate.sharedInstance initializeSDK] to appDelegate.m
2. Platform-neutral i.e. Settings.initializeSDK()

I've got a couple of questions about each approach.

Natively

1. If you initialise the app in appDelegate.m what happens when you need to ask a user for ATT on iOS 14+? Do you need to add FacebookAdvertiserIDCollectionEnabled = false to your info.plist and then call Settings.setAdvertiserTrackingEnabled(true) after the user has accepted ATT in your app?
2. What about Android? Will this still be auto-init?
3. I noticed in your example app you have the following set in info.plist. Are these necessary?

<key>FacebookAutoLogAppEventsEnabled</key>
<string>FALSE</string>
<key>FacebookAdvertiserIDCollectionEnabled</key>
<string>FALSE</string>

4. If only using the SDK for logging events do you need to add the below native code to appDelegate.m?

Platform-neutral

1. Do you need to call Settings.initializeSDK() for Android?
2. If using Settings.initializeSDK() do you need to complete number 4 above i.e. adding the native code to appDelegate.m?
3. Do you need to add the FacebookAdvertiserIDCollectionEnabled to info.plist if you are calling Settings.initializeSDK() after the users accepts ATT?

Just a FYI, I couldn't for the love or money test out logging on Events Manager using the below guide.

[mikehardy]

I must admit, I really don't know personally, App Events aren't a use case for my own apps, however that section has git blame attributed to Nick Petersen (@nicknjpconsultingllc / @nickelbob) and perhaps they know and/or have current experience?

[walterholohan]

No problem at all @mikehardy, I appreciate the honesty. Hopefully @nicknjpconsultingllc will be able to help with a few of the questions. In the meantime I will continue with doing a deepdive into the native ios facebook sdk repo to see if I can gain more understanding from there.

[lavpreetsandhu]

hi @walterholohan you check this article may be it will help you