New Authorization login screen for Facebook permissons

Facebook is rolling out a new Permissions dialog flow, that includes a set of new screens your users will need to interact with when installing your application. The new dialog boxes include an area when you can provide a description for your users to read before they install the application and an easy-to-read list of the permissions your application will be requesting.

As the new Open Graph is rolled out to the public the permissions dialog box will also include a flow of recent posts from the application.

Like the old permissions dialog box, this only appears the first time the user interacts with the application.

The new flow includes multiple screens, the process is described below:

1. The user is presented with the “Introduction” dialog box.

• The user will see the application logo
• The user will see the permissions that are requested
• The user will read a description of the application
• The user will see a list of their friends that have accepted the application

2. The user will click the “login” button.

• If the user is already logged into the Facebook platform the user will be navigated to the next screen.
• This same dialog will appear if the user is authenticating to an application that is in the Facebook tab/canvas or if the user is on your own website that is using the Facebook APIs.

3. Once the user has logged in the user will then accepted the extended permissions. This dialog box has a text area where you can explain to the user why you need these permissions for your application.

So, this is pretty cool. Yes it’s an extra step, but now as an application owner you have more tool to inform your users about your application.

Read more about this on Facebook’s developer’s blog.