Facebook SDK for Android: how to get the user's gender

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I suppose its either getProperty("sex") or ("gender") or user.asMap().get("sex") or ("gender") ? also, what kind of permission do I set in the following line?

authButton.setReadPermissions(Arrays.asList("basic_info", "email", "user_likes", "user_status"));

check this link http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14542193/how-to-get-facebook-photo-full-name-gender-using-facebook-sdk-android?rq=1 — Naveen Kumar, Dec 17 '13 at 11:11

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 17 '13 at 11:12

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no seperate permission for this this values you can get gender like this And see THIS

   private String UserInfoDisplay(GraphUser user) {    

        StringBuilder userInfo = new StringBuilder("");              
        String Name =  user.getName();
        String Id =   user.getId();
        String lastname =    user.getLastName();
        String firstname =  user.getFirstName();
        String getUsername =  user.getUsername();             

        String get_gender = (String) user.getProperty("gender");


        String image_url = "http://graph.facebook.com/"+user.getId()+"/picture?type=square";        

        Log.i("User information == >", Name +Id + lastname+ 
                firstname + image_url + get_gender +  getUsername + "usermail"+User_mail  );

        text.setText(Name + "  mail = " +User_mail);

        return userInfo.toString();
    }

answered Dec 17 '13 at 11:12

NagarjunaReddy

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if I get the user image this way, does this remove the need to use com.facebook.widget.ProfilePictureView and use my own ImageButton for the user avatar instead? – Kaloyan Roussev Dec 17 '13 at 11:16
Is email considered the username? – Lion789 Nov 02 '14 at 06:36
Could you please check http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31275629/facebook-sdk-for-android-graphuser . Similar to this, but other permissions. I have tried, but have problems accessing the required details. – Ankit Aggarwal Jul 08 '15 at 16:45

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 17 '13 at 11:13

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You can get the gender of user from the "user_about_me" permission and get the gender from the response json by user.getProperty("gender") .toString().

answered Dec 17 '13 at 11:13

Abhishek Agarwal

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what? You don't that permission. I cite: `A person's name, profile picture, locale, age range and gender are included by default with the public_profile permission.` – erdomester Mar 28 '15 at 14:30

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 17 '13 at 11:13

  Request.executeMeRequestAsync (session, new Request.GraphUserCallback() {

        @Override
        public void onCompleted(GraphUser user, Response response) {


            String fbId = user.getId();
            String fbAccessToken = fbAccessToken;
            String fbName = user.getName();
            String gender = user.asMap().get("gender").toString();       

            Log.i("FB", gender);
        }
    });

Facebook SDK for Android: how to get the user's gender

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