Opening an app directly on play store

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I am using sharing intent to share my apps link to users via whatsapp,gmail,twitter...etc..

For example if the link is market://details?id=com.imangi.templerun&hl=en

It just gets posted as plain text and is not clickable.

I tried using http://market.android.com/details?id=com.imangi.templerun&hl=en But the user has to choose another option after clicking the link such as OPEN WITH Chrome or Playstore...

What i want to accomplish is once the user clicks, the app should open on the play store... Any suggestions and help would be grateful .. Thanks.

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:43

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Have a look at this link at stackoverflow. You willget answer to your question. market:// is not clickable by default. You need to implement click event for view containing this text.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:43

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answered Apr 23 '15 at 16:10

seema

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I am posting the link to users via whatsapp or gmail.... So i cannot add event handlers for it or use startActivity....... now u can have a better understanding i guess... @seema – kaushik reddy Apr 24 '15 at 18:11

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 23 '15 at 16:17

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Try this code to open url directly in play store:

String url = "http://market.android.com/details?id=com.imangi.templerun&hl=en";
        Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
        i.setData(Uri.parse(url));
        i.setPackage("com.android.vending");/* Play store package name */
        startActivity(i);

answered Apr 23 '15 at 16:17

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I am posting the link to users via whatsapp or gmail.... So i cannot add event handlers for it or use startActivity... @Vikalp – kaushik reddy Apr 24 '15 at 18:13

Opening an app directly on play store

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