How to navigate to Hangouts chat from android application

Question

I want to navigate from my android app to hangouts text messages chat. i already have the google user/ id of the user i would like to chat with, but i found only video hangouts api examples. is it possible at all? thank you very much.

@RaguSwaminathan i know how to just open hangouts in new activity , my purpose is to open it on specific chat - with the user name/id that i already have — moshe puptic, Dec 15 '15 at 11:30
username / id ?? are you reffering to the email account configured in hangout or something else like mobile number. — Swaminathan V, Dec 15 '15 at 12:01
@RaguSwaminathan yeah i meant to open the relevant chat by email account, sorry i didnt mention clearly — moshe puptic, Dec 15 '15 at 15:08

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Dec 15 '15 at 12:40

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If you're opening it with any conversation number, try to write code like this:

            String number = "9876543210"

            Uri uri = Uri.parse("smsto:" + number);
            Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SENDTO, uri);
            i.setPackage("com.google.android.talk");
            startActivity(Intent.createChooser(i, ""));
            }

edited Dec 15 '15 at 12:40

piotrek1543

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answered Dec 15 '15 at 12:09

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:07

It is not possible to open the Hangout chat for a specific contact through Android Intent.

We are allowed to open the hangout app and it displays the contacts for us. After picking contacts, we could able to send message / share text with that particular contact.

check this reference link

To open hangout chat directly without user to pick from the listed apps, below code will help you,

    Intent share = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
    share.setType("text/plain");
    share.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "Hi");
    share.setPackage("com.google.android.talk");  // open hangouts app directly
    startActivity(share);

Happy Coding..!! :) :)

How to navigate to Hangouts chat from android application

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