Large image blurs on feed dialog

Question

I am using a URL of an image which is 160x368 in dimension. The URL I am getting is from a web-service and is used at many places in my and some other applications too, so I can't change it.
I am passing this URL to the parameter of feed dialog as follow:

params.putString("picture", getFbImageUrl());
facebook.dialog(this, "feed", params,new customDialogListener());

The image on feed dialog is displayed with very poor quality and is not looking very good. However on the actual wall post it just gets shrinked and looking fine.
I just want to show a good quality of (even a small version of ) the same image on the feed dialog, which looks nice too.
Any help?

You can hit the url first, get the image, resize it than place in Dilagoue, its quality will be improved. — aalionline, Mar 14 '12 at 06:34
The dialog takes an image URL as a parameter, not an image. So this won't work too :( — 0xC0DED00D, Mar 14 '12 at 06:37
getFBImageURl() is a built in method, or you have write this on your own ? — aalionline, Mar 14 '12 at 07:19
This is my own method which returns the URL of the image which I need to put there. The method takes only the URL as the argument. — 0xC0DED00D, Mar 14 '12 at 09:00
see the below Ans i put below, i took help from Graph API, its working fine in WebView, i hope it will work. :-) — aalionline, Mar 14 '12 at 09:24

aalionline · Answer 1 · 2012-03-15T06:47:56.397

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Append this line "/picture?type=small" at the end of the url, as i done here,

params.putString("picture", getFbImageUrl());
facebook.dialog(this, "feed", params,new customDialogListener());

private String getFbImageUrl()
{   URL url;
return url+"/picture?type=small"
}

I hope this will work, as per refrence https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/

edited Mar 15 '12 at 06:47

answered Mar 14 '12 at 09:23

aalionline

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The trick works for getting the profile picture of a user, but I want to share the picture. I haven't checked if it works in my problem or not, will let you know once I am able to check it again. – 0xC0DED00D Mar 15 '12 at 06:28

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 23 '12 at 10:55

I've finally worked around this by changing the web-service to give me a already compressed image link, to use in the facebook sharing.
The another solution was to use photo-sharing, but since it's not what I(read client) wanted, so I chose the first option.
If anyone has any better solution, please let me know.

Large image blurs on feed dialog

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