Android - BitMap Null From URL

Question

When i was trying to get the bitmap image from facebook url, it showing bitmap is null. here is my code.

URL url = new URL("http://graph.facebook.com/100006480449004/picture?type=large");
HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
connection.setDoInput(true);
connection.connect();
InputStream input = connection.getInputStream();
Bitmap myBitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(input);

Answer 1

Enter the URL into your browser, this will forward you to the correct URL of the pic, ending on .jpg

Or you enable redirecting via connection.setInstanceFollowRedirects(true);