Running a freshly installed Facebook SDK v3.15.0 for Android, clicking "Pick Some Friends" button, launched the facebook friends picker, but shows no friends at all. I'de expect it to show a list of all my friends, letting me pick one.
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have you configured your developer account in fb?? and i recommend you use easyfacebook.jar its really simple because fb official sdk is s*** – Illegal Argument Jun 15 '14 at 06:53
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@IllegalArgument Well, I have a few apps in production. Do I have to define something for the sample app as well? – Guy Jun 15 '14 at 07:08
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On April 2014, Facebook have made a breaking change to "friends list" functionality.
In short, when an application requests a list of the user's friends, it will only get back the list of friends that are also using the same app, and logged-in to facebook using it. It also requires a new permission 'user_friends' that should be asked for when logging the user in.
Thus, the lists comes up empty, as none of my friends are using the sample app.
Note: this change of API is breaking the most basic social feature i.e. "list of my friends". In addition, it breaks simple applications such as a "birthday reminder".
Facebook is allowing access to the old API (which does allow listing of all friends) until April 2015. Let's hope they realize they made a mistake by then, and change the semantics to how it was before.
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1Thanks @Guy. For anyone interested, Facebook's official info on this is [here](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/permissions/v2.1). Look for the **user_friends** permission. – Brent Clay Aug 31 '14 at 13:39
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You may want to try the Request mechanism, which supports the ability to send invites to friends. It is geared mostly towards gaming, but supports some good use cases. More info can be found here.
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