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

   public static Bitmap getFacebookProfilePicture(String userID)
                throws SocketException, SocketTimeoutException,
                MalformedURLException, IOException, Exception {
            String imageURL;
            Bitmap bitmap = null;
            imageURL = "http://graph.facebook.com/" + userID
                    + "/picture?type=large";

             URL url1 = new URL(imageURL);
                HttpURLConnection ucon1 = (HttpURLConnection) url1.openConnection();
                ucon1.setInstanceFollowRedirects(false);
                URL secondURL1 = new URL(ucon1.getHeaderField("Location"));
            InputStream in = (InputStream) new URL(imageURL).getContent();
            bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(in);
            return bitmap;
        }

use this code.....