how to open android application from my website

Question

I have a website it has many links like Facebook , Twitter and etc. when some one click that facebook link in android browser , it should open facebook android app , if it is installed in that device otherwise i should open google market.

so how to give my

`<a href="what link should i give here?" >open facebook</a>



<a href="intent://scan/#Intent;scheme=zxing;package=com.google.zxing.client.android;end"> Take a QR code </a>

if i give this link play store opening, same way how to open other app?

 <a href="market://details?id=com.linkedin.android">clikc me </a>

this link brings me to market place , instead of this i want to open linked app directly

check out this link : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2958701/launch-custom-android-application-from-android-browser or http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1609573/intercepting-links-from-the-browser-to-open-my-android-app — Tech_Intelliswift, Feb 02 '15 at 07:01

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 02 '15 at 06:49

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This can be done through adding intent filter to your activity

<intent-filter>
    <data android:scheme="my_new_app" />
    <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
</intent-filter>

Then, in your web app you can put links like:

<a href="my_new_app://other/parameters/here">

Additionally, if you want to extract URI params in your activity from the URL you clicked

List<String> params = data.getPathSegments();
String first = params.get(0); // "other"
String second = params.get(1); // "parameters"
String third = params.get(2); // "here"

answered Feb 02 '15 at 06:49

Murtaza Khursheed Hussain

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what is mean by "my_new_app"? i'm not using android codes in my website – Thamaraiselvam Feb 02 '15 at 06:52
these are called `schemes`, my_new_app is scheme, you can put your app name as scheme. Whatever you like – Murtaza Khursheed Hussain Feb 02 '15 at 06:52
should i give the package name there? – Thamaraiselvam Feb 02 '15 at 06:53
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dude , i'm not creating any android app. i'm creating a website. from that website i should open android app. – Thamaraiselvam Feb 02 '15 at 06:57
you have to put in that your app and your website. otherwise nto possible. – Murtaza Khursheed Hussain Feb 02 '15 at 06:58
dude, if i dont know the shemes of an app , how to findout know that? like this – Thamaraiselvam Feb 02 '15 at 08:15

Sukhwant Singh Grewal · Answer 2 · 2015-02-02T07:06:31.343

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im not sure but try this link ...

facebook://facebook.com/inbox

com.facebook.katana.LoginActivity

com.facebook.katana

edited Feb 02 '15 at 07:06

answered Feb 02 '15 at 06:57

Sukhwant Singh Grewal

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it is not working , it takes me to website link facebook://facebook.com/inbox and shows webpage is not available – Thamaraiselvam Feb 02 '15 at 07:02

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 02 '15 at 09:01

You can't open just any app. The web-browser they're using has to interpret the link and decides what to do with it.

For example Chrome for android annoyingly "google searches" localhost/ when you bang that into it's address bar, it decides you want to search rather than literally go to http://localhost/

It will in turn open up native apps it's aware of if it's familiar with the link provided I only know of the market link market://search?q=pname:com.google.earth which will open the market and take you to the Google earth app. I don't know what would trigger the facebook app to open though sorry. This link goes nowhere in Chrome for Desktop PC however

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