Getting friends picture using facebook-android-SDK

Question

I'm getting friends ids and names using

mAsyncRunner.request("me/friends", new FriendRequestListener());

but I also need the friends profile pictures. I could loop over the friends to get them, but this is many requests.

Is there any way to get friends ids, names AND pictures in one request?

Thanks

Answer 1

Unfortunately not because friends list is a JSON encoded answer and including all pic would be a huge response.
You have to call http://graph.facebook.com/ + userid + /picture?type=large (omit ?type=large if you want small sized version) for every friend.