Android and Facebook: How to get picture of logged in User

Question

I use the official Facebook SDK in my Android Application. After the user logs in, I can get the uid and the name of the facebook user like so:

Facebook mFacebook = new Facebook(APP_ID);
// ... user logs in ...
//String jsonUser = mFacebook.request("me/picture"); // throws error
String jsonUser = mFacebook.request("me");
JSONObject obj = Util.parseJson(jsonUser);
String facebookId = obj.optString("id");
String name = obj.optString("name");

I also know that the I can access the profile picture with those links:

https://graph.facebook.com/<facebookId>/picture 
https://graph.facebook.com/<facebookId>/picture?type=large

I would love to use this code to geht the profile picture:

public static Drawable getPictureForFacebookId(String facebookId) {

    Drawable picture = null;
    InputStream inputStream = null;

    try {
        inputStream = new URL("https://graph.facebook.com/" + facebookId + "/picture").openStream();
    } catch (Exception e) {        
     e.printStackTrace();
     return null;

    }
    picture = Drawable.createFromStream(inputStream, "facebook-pictures");

    return picture;
}

But it just wont work. I always get the following error:

SSL handshake failure: Failure in SSL library, usually a protocol error

And I cant solve this issue. It seems to be rather complicated(look here or here). So what other options are there to get the picture of a facebook user that successfully logged into my application?

score 22 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 04 '11 at 13:21

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ImageView user_picture;
 userpicture=(ImageView)findViewById(R.id.userpicture);
 URL img_value = null;
 img_value = new URL("http://graph.facebook.com/"+id+"/picture?type=large");
 Bitmap mIcon1 = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(img_value.openConnection().getInputStream());
 userpicture.setImageBitmap(mIcon1);

where ID is ur profile ID...

answered Nov 04 '11 at 13:21

Chirag_CID

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nice and straight way but i would say id even can be name of the user like "parag.chauhan" – MKJParekh Nov 04 '11 at 13:40
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thts true..but this cant be use for each user, as thr could be so many user of same name... – Chirag_CID Nov 05 '11 at 07:31
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Not working for higher version ...This works like charm in lower version but not in higher version. What should I do for that? – AndroidHacker Feb 18 '14 at 12:10
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The current URL is a 302 redirect, get the 302 location and a second request to get the image. This helped me out [link](http://www.mkyong.com/java/java-httpurlconnection-follow-redirect-example/) – Olavz Jun 20 '14 at 10:00

score 9 · Answer 2 · edited Dec 05 '11 at 11:20

I also had that problem some time ago. What I did was download the picture using an async task, and then set an ImageView with the image just downloaded. I will paste the code snippet:

ImageView fbUserAvatar = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.fb_user_avatar);

private synchronized void downloadAvatar() {
    AsyncTask<Void, Void, Bitmap> task = new AsyncTask<Void, Void, Bitmap>() {

        @Override
        public Bitmap doInBackground(Void... params) {
            URL fbAvatarUrl = null;
            Bitmap fbAvatarBitmap = null;
            try {
                fbAvatarUrl = new URL("http://graph.facebook.com/"+USER_ID+"/picture");
                fbAvatarBitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(fbAvatarUrl.openConnection().getInputStream());
            } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            } catch (IOException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
            return fbAvatarBitmap;
        }

        @Override
        protected void onPostExecute(Bitmap result) {
            fbUserAvatar.setImageBitmap(result);
        }

    };
    task.execute();
}

This code works for me. I hope it works for you too.

This code just couldn't work for you because it didn't compiled. `AsyncTask` takes 3 parameters and not 1 (so you can't use `AsyncTask`, but `AsyncTask`). Also it doesn't have `taskComplete` method, but have `onPostExecute` instead. I edited your code to make it compilable. — Volo, Dec 05 '11 at 11:14
I use my own AsyncTask with only one parameter, so yes, it was working. Anyway, thanks for editing... — Antonio, Dec 05 '11 at 17:11

score 5 · Answer 3 · edited Dec 15 '11 at 17:40

You can request a direct URl which contains your Access token:

URL MyProfilePicURL = new URL("https://graph.facebook.com/me/picture?type=normal&method=GET&access_token="+ Access_token );

Then get a decoded BitMap and assign it to image view:

Bitmap MyprofPicBitMap = null;
try {
    MyprofPicBitMap = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(MyProfilePicURL.openConnection().getInputStream());
} catch (IOException e) {
    // TODO Auto-generated catch block
    e.printStackTrace();
}

MyProfilePicImageView.setImageBitmap(mIcon1);

Robert Brooker · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-07T20:54:50.707

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request("me/picture") throws an error because the server returns a 302 (redirect to the image url) and the facebook sdk does not handle this.

edited Jun 07 '12 at 20:54

answered Apr 06 '11 at 22:55

Robert Brooker

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score 2 · Answer 5 · answered May 04 '13 at 13:02

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For displaying profile pic in your app, use ProfilePictureView from Facebook SDK.

Refer This

Just call setProfileId(String profileId) on it.

It will take care of displaying the image.

answered May 04 '13 at 13:02

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score 1 · Answer 6 · edited Nov 07 '11 at 22:37

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Add one line of code and that will be resolved.

HttpURLConnection.setFollowRedirects(true);

edited Nov 07 '11 at 22:37

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answered Nov 07 '11 at 13:11

AvtarSingh Suchariya

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score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Mar 19 '15 at 21:29

Use this, (usuario is a GraphUser):

ProfilePictureView p;
p = (ProfilePictureView) rootView.findViewById(R.id.fotoPerfil);
p.setProfileId(usuario.getId());

and xml markup:

<com.facebook.widget.ProfilePictureView
    android:id="@+id/profilePicture"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:gravity="center_horizontal"
    android:layout_marginBottom="10dp"
    facebook:preset_size="normal"/>

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