Get user's email from Facebook & Google+ #29
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Hello everyone,
Again, as I was already telling Anton by email, congrats for the work done here, it's brilliant and really make our life easier for social networking implementation.
I'm writing here because I was wondering how to retrieve user's email.
I need it in the "login" feature of Social Networks, and only for Google+ & Facebook, and I was quite surprised it was not possible to access user's email from SocialPerson.email yet because I know Facebook Android SDK & Google+ Android API allow this 😃
So based on Anton suggestion, here's my issue ticket regarding this.
Also, here's how that could be done & implemented in Android Social Networks :
-- For Facebook
Line 166 of "FacebookSocialPerson.java" (in the "impl" folder of Social Networks) '''request.executeAsync();'''
Just before we could add
'''Bundle params = request.getParameters();
request.putString("fields", "email,name,<OTHER NECESSARY ?>");
request.setParameters(params);'''
Facebook's default approved item for an application to connect to FB's APIs include email, by default, again, so might be good for Facebook scopes already.
-- For Google+
Line 100 of "GooglePlusSocialNetwork.java" (in the "impl" folder of Social Networks)
'''Person person = mPlusClient.getCurrentPerson();'''
We could simply add after that :
socialPerson.email = mPlusClient.getAccountName();
For me, "getAccountName" possibly returns the email of the user (not always the case, but worth try it 👯 )
Maybe the scopes need to be extended compared to what Social Networks is asking. Here is what I used to ask as 'scopes' for Google+ sign in 👍
'''mPlusClient = new PlusClient.Builder(mContext, this, this).setScopes(Plus.SCOPE_PLUS_LOGIN.en(), Plus.SCOPE_PLUS_PROFILE.en()).build();'''
What do you think guys ? 😄