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adneal
adneal

Reputation: 30804

Search a specific Play Store category

I use this URI to search the Play Store, but the Android docs don't mention a way to search a specific category like, games, music, or books.

URI marketUri = Uri.parse("market://search?q= ");

The Play Books and Play Music apps both open the Play Store app to their correct categories, so if they can open to a specific catergory, then I think I can search one. Does anyone have some info on doing this?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 2547

Answers (2)

adneal
adneal

Reputation: 30804

I found the solution. Here's the current method I'm using to shop the music category. 

public static void shopFor(Context context, String artistName) {
    String str = "https://market.android.com/search?q=%s&c=music&featured=MUSIC_STORE_SEARCH";
    Intent shopIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(String.format(str, Uri.encode(artistName))));
    shopIntent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
    shopIntent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TASK);
    context.startActivity(shopIntent);
}

Upvotes: 6

robertly
robertly

Reputation: 2132

I did a search at play.google.com in the books category and the URL looks like this:

https://play.google.com/store/search?q=android&c=books

try adding "&c=books" after your query and see what happens.

Upvotes: 1

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