Android Facebook Sdk And Url Methods Form Successful Friends Dialog, But Cannot Commit

This is one that I'm beginning to think is a bug, please, Please prove me wrong: I want to programmatically friend a user on Facebook; they are only and most certainly someone the

Solution 1:

So, it is a bug on facebook, one that they are aware of, and one that they are not going to fix any time soon ( shortage in developer talent? "strategy"? I'll ask Mark... ). Hearing this dissappointing news, I then tried the url in chrome a few different ways, and big surprise: it works fine when you request the desktop site on the confirm screen.

So, there is one way left to us mobile devs, and that is to make a dialog that jails a webview with

1. a desktop-seeming user-agent
2. a URL override to stop the fb website from redirecting through Intent.ACTION_VIEW

here's my implementation (in a fragment):

privatevoidsendRequestDialog() {
    String requestUri = "https://www.facebook.com/dialog/friends/?id="+
         Id+"&app_id="+getString(R.string.fb_app_id)+
         "&redirect_uri=http://www.facebook.com";
    WebView webView = newWebView(this.getActivity());
    webView.getSettings().setUserAgentString(getString("Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0"));
    webView.setWebViewClient(newWebViewClient(){
        publicbooleanshouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url){
            returnfalse;
        }
    });
    webView.loadUrl(requestUri);
    AlertDialog.Builder dialog = newAlertDialog.Builder(this.getActivity());
    dialog.setView(webView);
    dialog.setPositiveButton("Done", newDialogInterface.OnClickListener() {

            publicvoidonClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {

                dialog.dismiss();
            }
        });
    dialog.show();

Of course, you'll want to make those strings references, but this works and looks good in the UI.

Onwards! -AnB