Permissions Error - Trying to get friends using android facebook sdk

Question

I am trying to add a feature to my android app that allows users to \"checkin\" with other people tagged to the checkin. I have the checkins method working no problem and ca

Answer 1

You might need the following permissions:

• user_checkins
• friends_checkins
• read_friendlists
• manage_friendlists
• publish_checkins

Check the related ones from the API docs. Before that, make sure that which line causes this permission error and try to fix it.

Answer 2

You can private static final String[] PERMISSIONS = new String[] {"publish_stream","status_update",xxxx};xxx is premissions

Answer 3

The solution is to implement a RequestListener when making the request to the Facebook graph API. I have the new getFriends() method (see below) which uses the AsyncGacebookRunner to request the data.

public void getFriends(CharSequence[] charFriendsNames,String[] sFriendsID, ProgressBar progbar) {
    try{
        //Pass arrays to store data
        friends = charFriendsNames;
        friendsID = sFriendsID;
        pb = progbar;
        Log.d(TAG, "Getting Friends!");
        //Create Request with Friends Request Listener
        mAsyncRunner.request("me/friends", new FriendsRequestListener());
    } catch (Exception e) {
        Log.d(TAG, "Exception: " + e.getMessage());
    }
}

The AsyncFacebookRunner makes the the request using the custom FriendsRequestListener (see below) which implements the RequestListener class;

private class FriendsRequestListener implements RequestListener {
    String friendData;

    //Method runs when request is complete
    public void onComplete(String response, Object state) {
        Log.d(TAG, "FriendListRequestONComplete");
        //Create a copy of the response so i can be read in the run() method.
        friendData = response; 

        //Create method to run on UI thread
        FBConnectActivity.this.runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {
            public void run() {
                try {
                    //Parse JSON Data
                    JSONObject json;
                    json = Util.parseJson(friendData);

                    //Get the JSONArry from our response JSONObject
                    JSONArray friendArray = json.getJSONArray("data");

                    //Loop through our JSONArray
                    int friendCount = 0;
                    String fId, fNm;
                    JSONObject friend;
                    for (int i = 0;i<friendArray.length();i++){
                        //Get a JSONObject from the JSONArray
                        friend = friendArray.getJSONObject(i);
                        //Extract the strings from the JSONObject
                        fId = friend.getString("id");
                        fNm = friend.getString("name");
                        //Set the values to our arrays
                        friendsID[friendCount] = fId;
                        friends[friendCount] = fNm;
                        friendCount ++;
                        Log.d("TEST", "Friend Added: " + fNm);
                    }

                    //Remove Progress Bar
                    pb.setVisibility(ProgressBar.GONE);

                } catch (JSONException e) {
                    // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                    e.printStackTrace();
                } catch (FacebookError e) {
                    // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }
            }
        });
    }

Feel free to use any of this code in your own projects, or ask any questions about it.