Android : Getting a Bitmap from a url connection (graph.facebook.com) that redirects to another url

Question

I have done everything to get a url where i can get the profile pic of a facebook user.

The only problem left now is to get that image into a bitmap object.

Answer 1

You are right in saying that http://graph.facebook.com redirects the connection first (as we can see in the url) to https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/, but-

auto redirection works automatically when original and redirected protocols are same.

So, if you try to load images from https instead of http : "https://graph.facebook.com/USER_ID/picture"; since image's url is "https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/....", BitmapFactory.decodeStream shall work again to get you the bitmap.

Here's the code-

URL imgUrl = new URL("https://graph.facebook.com/{user-id}/picture?type=large");
InputStream in = (InputStream) imgUrl.getContent();
Bitmap  bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(in);

Hope that helps. Good luck.