Facebook Developers Can Retrieve Users’ Profile Pictures In Different Sizes

Facebook introduced a way for developers to retrieve users’ profile pictures for use within their applications in different sizes, rather than resizing and scaling them into a standard space.

Facebook introduced a way for developers to retrieve users’ profile pictures for use within their applications in different sizes, rather than resizing and scaling them into a standard space.

The social network explained the details in a post on its developer blog:

In many cases, when displaying Facebook profile pictures, the image needs to fit into a specifically allotted space within the user interface. Resizing and scaling the image can be a cumbersome process, often resulting in suboptimal image quality.

This week, we released updates to our application-programming interfaces to allow you to retrieve users’ profile pictures in varying sizes.

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