On 9th of March 2018 I wrote an article “Using Native Facebook Login Button in Xamarin.Forms” which turned out to be the second popular article on my blog. Since then, thanks for my readers, I received many additional questions which I decided to answer in this separate article. However, before diving into those questions, I would like to take a step back and talk about Facebook SDK in relation to Xamarin.

Xamarin.Essentials provides developers with cross-platform APIs for their mobile applications.

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Code snippet is a shortcut that can be used to generate a code from a specific template. Example of a built-in code snippet:

Few months ago I wrote an article about Using Native Facebook Login Button in Xamarin.Formsicle where I explained how to retrieve user access token using Facebook SDK. It is still a valid read and a good solution, however, recently I discovered that there is a shorter way to achieve almost the same thing.

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