Firebase - Getting profile photo url from auth having Facebook provider after Graph 8.0 update

Question

I am currently using Facebook login for firebase auth for my android app and retriving user's photourl using

firebaseAuth.getCurrentUser().getPhotoUrl()

This gives me the photo url from the user's facebook profile.

Recently I have received mail from Facebook stating - "Facebook will now require client or app access tokens to access a user’s profile picture when querying against user IDs. Beginning on October 24, 2020, queries for profile pictures made against user IDs without an access token will return a generic silhouette rather than a profile picture." More on it on this link https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2020/08/04/Introducing-graph-v8-marketing-api-v8

My question -

Does the request firebaseAuth.getCurrentUser().getPhotoUrl() use access tokens to access url from facebook and will it function the same after the release of Graph API 8.0 on 24th Oct? Or will I have to make a different query request to fetch the User's photo url for facebook provider?

Answer 1

Unfortunately, you'll have to add the access token to the photo url by yourself as Firebase does not and will not support it (as they don't have access to it - you can read more about it here).

You'll have to do something along the lines of:

firebaseAuth.getCurrentUser().getPhotoUrl() + "?access_token=<facebook_access_token>"

Answer 2

To be able to get the access token of facebook, after being logged-in with Firebase, you can use:

AccessToken.getCurrentAccessToken()

Complementing the answer of Marek Fort, with Kotlin you can get the picture doing something like that:

"${firebaseAuth.getCurrentUser().getPhotoUrl()}?access_token=${AccessToken.getCurrentAccessToken()}"