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

You are getting null because the call to URL.openConnection() (or any other mechanism to fetch the image) is asynchronous. It returns after your line: return bitmap;. Therefore bitmap is always null.

I suggest using a callback instead.

This is what i did:

final AQuery androidQuery = new AQuery(this);

        AjaxCallback imageCallback = new AjaxCallback() {

            @Override
            public void callback(String url, byte[] avatar, AjaxStatus status) {

                if (avatar != null) {
                    save(avatar);
                } else {
                    Log.e(TAG, "Cannot fetch third party image. AjaxStatus: " + status.getError());
                }
            }

        };

        androidQuery.ajax(imageUrl, byte[].class, imageCallback);

Android query allows you to get the image in different formats (e.g. byte array, Bitmap, etc.). There are other libraries out there, but the idea is the same.