Question

I am writing a android app that will pull in a list of all the users friends so they can tag them in the photo but displaying a large box of the friends with their photo instead of a list. Because some people have 500+ friends, we all know their are only a handful (maybe 50) that are friends they actively communicate on Facebook by comments or being tagged in photos. I would like to be able to just pull their top xxx friends as it seems Facebook does this same thing on their site, but I just cant find anything in the Graph API to do this task.

Anyone have any pointers?

Answer 1

The other way of doing it is, make a Graph API request for the status messages posted by the user, the friends who have commented or liked his status are the ones with whom he/she interacts the most, doing this is pretty simple, you can use this:

    $statuses = $facebook->api('/me/statuses');

    foreach($statuses['data'] as $status){
    // processing likes array for calculating fanbase. 

            foreach($status['likes']['data'] as $likesData){
                $frid = $likesData['id']; 
                $frname = $likesData['name']; 
                $friendArray[$frid] = $frname;
            }

         foreach($status['comments']['data'] as $comArray){
         // processing comments array for calculating fanbase
                    $frid = $comArray['from']['id'];
                    $frname = $comArray['from']['name'];
    }
}

keep counters as per your choice, and it will be done.