Android™

Get Current User Information

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Demonstrates how to retrieve information about the current Facebook user. This is the most basic thing to get working first (after obtaining an access token). Android™

// Important: Don't forget to include the call to System.loadLibrary
// as shown at the bottom of this code sample.
package com.test;

import android.app.Activity;
import com.chilkatsoft.*;

import android.widget.TextView;
import android.os.Bundle;

public class SimpleActivity extends Activity {

  private static final String TAG = "Chilkat";

  // Called when the activity is first created.
  @Override
  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    boolean success = false;

    // This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
    // See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

    // This example assumes we previously obtained an access token
    CkOAuth2 oauth2 = new CkOAuth2();
    oauth2.put_AccessToken("FACEBOOK-ACCESS-TOKEN");

    CkRest rest = new CkRest();

    // Connect to Facebook and send the following GET request:

    // GET /v2.7/me HTTP/1.1
    // Host: graph.facebook.com
    boolean bAutoReconnect = true;
    success = rest.Connect("graph.facebook.com",443,true,bAutoReconnect);
    if (success != true) {
        Log.i(TAG, rest.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    // Provide the authentication credentials (i.e. the access key)
    rest.SetAuthOAuth2(oauth2);

    String responseJson = rest.fullRequestNoBody("GET","/v2.7/me");
    if (rest.get_LastMethodSuccess() != true) {
        Log.i(TAG, rest.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    Log.i(TAG, responseJson);

    // The responseJson looks like this:
    // {"name":"John Doe","id":"10111011320111110"}

  }

  static {
      System.loadLibrary("chilkat");

      // Note: If the incorrect library name is passed to System.loadLibrary,
      // then you will see the following error message at application startup:
      //"The application <your-application-name> has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."
  }
}