Re: [android-developers] How to open Google play from a shared link on Facebook?

I have researched this more and the best option is to share a link to the Google play website. It is explained more here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21115881/how-to-open-the-google-play-app-from-a-shared-facebook-link

On Monday, January 13, 2014 3:09:32 PM UTC+1, TreKing wrote:

I think I may have misunderstood your original question. I don't use Facebook so I'm not familiar with the flow of sharing with it, so I'm not sure I can be of much help. I'm surprised, though, that opening the http:// link does not give you option to open the app in the Google Play app.

On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 4:07 AM, MobileVisuals <eyv...@astralvisuals.com> wrote:

Yes.I am the programmer here and it is my own app. The devices that I am testing on have Play store installed. I assume that the correct intent has to be created with 

  Intent sharingIntent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND);

 sharingIntent.setType("text/plain");

It has to be started with 

  startActivity(Intent.createChooser(sharingIntent, "Share via"));

The problem is how to set the information in the intent(the code between creating the intent and starting it).I used this code before and it started the web page for the app without problems:

 sharingIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "Product name");

 sharingIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=example.package");

I try to replace this with the following code, which should start Google play:

  sharingIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "Product name");

 sharingIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, Uri.parse("market://details?id=example.package"));

This results in that the link to the appstore is not included when I try to share the link from Facebook. I test with 2 different devices, which both have Google play. I also try with 

  sharingIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "Product name");

sharingIntent.setData(Uri.parse("market://details?id=example.package"));

This resulted in the error message "can not find the application to perform this action". Do you know how I can solve this problem? I have replaced the package name of my app with an example package in this thread, but I am using the correct package name when I am testing.

On Sunday, January 12, 2014 6:40:17 PM UTC+1, TreKing wrote:

On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 5:48 AM, MobileVisuals <eyv...@astralvisuals.com> wrote:

I tried to implement according to their advice, but the link to the appstore is not included when the user tries to share the link now. I tested from a Facebook test account. Do you know how I can fix this?

I'm not entirely sure what you're referring to. Aren't you writing code for your own app? So you control the code? You just have to create the correct intent and start it, the system will do the rest (assuming the device has the Play store installed, of course).

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