Retrieve profile picture using Facebook SDK 3.0 for Android

Question

I\'ve following problem with Facebook SDK 3.0 for Android. I wanna get my (and my friends) profile picture without using their ProfilePictureView widget, so if I use Graph Explo

Answer 1

As far as I know, it's not possible to get the image directly using the facebook graph API, because their API is designed to only accept JSON responses. It seems weird that they would allow a request that results in a non-JSON response, and especially strange that they would put that request in their official documentation *(https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/user/picture/).

I am using the built in Android DefaultHttpClient library.

private Bitmap downloadImage(url) {
    Bitmap image = null;
    DefaultHttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
    HttpGet request = new HttpGet(imageUrl);
    try {
        HttpResponse response = client.execute(request);
        HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();

        int imageLength = (int)(entity.getContentLength());

        InputStream is = entity.getContent();

        byte[] imageBlob = new byte[imageLength];

        int bytesRead = 0;

        // Pull the image's byte array

        while (bytesRead < imageLength) {
            int n = is.read(imageBlob, bytesRead, imageLength - bytesRead);
            bytesRead= n;
        }

        image = BitmapFactory.decodeByteArray(imageBlob, 0, imageBlob.length);
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    return image;
}