Android - get facebook profile picture

Question

I don\'t know why, but I am always getting null when I try to get the profile picture of the user. Do I need to set some specific permissions to get access?

Below is

Answer 1

Url seems OK.

So problem is with your connection. Does URL.getContent() really return stream? Because if BitmapFactory gets null it also returns null.

Try this:

Bitmap bitmap = null;
URL url = new URL(http://graph.facebook.com/"+userID+"/picture?type=large);
HttpURLConnection urlConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
try {
   InputStream in = new BufferedInputStream(urlConnection.getInputStream());
   bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(in);
}
finally {
      urlConnection.disconnect();
}