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Aswan
Aswan

Reputation: 5135

launch facebook app from other app

How can I launch a facebook app from my app in android?

Upvotes: 24

Views: 57301

Answers (5)

abir-cse
abir-cse

Reputation: 546

startActivity(new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("https://www.facebook.com/groups/14531755***6215/")));

This directly opens facebook group having the id: 14531755***6215 inside fb app

Upvotes: 0

Sunny
Sunny

Reputation: 14818

If any one want to directly open a photo 

public Intent getOpenFacebookIntent(String pId) {
    try {
        activity.getPackageManager().getPackageInfo("com.facebook.katana", 0);
        return new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("facebook:/photos?album=0&photo=" + pId + "&user=" + ownerId));
    } catch (Exception e) {
        return new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("https://www.facebook.com/"));
    }
}

startActivity(getOpenFacebookIntent(pid));

where ownerId is the Facebook id of the user who uploaded this picture and pid is PhotoId

Enjoy :))

Upvotes: 9

NPike
NPike

Reputation: 13254

Looking at the latest Facebook apk (1.6), it looks like both "facebook://" and "fb://" are registered protocols.

facebook://

facebook:/chat
facebook:/events
facebook:/friends
facebook:/inbox
facebook:/info
facebook:/newsfeed
facebook:/places
facebook:/requests
facebook:/wall

fb://

fb://root
fb://feed
fb://feed/{userID}
fb://profile
fb://profile/{userID}
fb://page/{id}
fb://group/{id}
fb://place/fw?pid={id}
fb://profile/{#user_id}/wall
fb://profile/{#user_id}/info
fb://profile/{#user_id}/photos
fb://profile/{#user_id}/mutualfriends
fb://profile/{#user_id}/friends
fb://profile/{#user_id}/fans
fb://search
fb://friends
fb://pages
fb://messaging
fb://messaging/{#user_id}
fb://online
fb://requests
fb://events
fb://places
fb://birthdays
fb://notes
fb://places
fb://groups
fb://notifications
fb://albums
fb://album/{%s}?owner={#%s}
fb://video/?href={href}
fb://post/{postid}?owner={uid}¹

Sorry if I missed some... only played with a handful of them in the emulator to see if they actually work - a bunch of them will cause the Facebook application to crash.

¹ where postid is in the uid_postid format, e.g 11204705797_10100412949637447

Upvotes: 68

Zoombie
Zoombie

Reputation: 3610

Launching of another application from your application in android, can be done only if Intent action you fire matches with intent filter of other application you want to launch.

As @patrick demonstrated, download facebook.apk to emulator and try to run that through adb shell command. It works fine..

Pass Intent filter and data as an Uri

Upvotes: 1

Patrick Boos
Patrick Boos

Reputation: 7029

To just start the default Launcher Activity:

Intent intent = new Intent("android.intent.category.LAUNCHER");
intent.setClassName("com.facebook.katana", "com.facebook.katana.LoginActivity");
startActivity(intent);

I did some research, because I wanted to find this out :). I found some ways how to start different activities easily. But I can not guarantee that this will work after upgrades of facebook. I tested it with my current facebook app and it works. At least I tested it with "adb shell" using "am start .....".

Basic is:

String uri = "facebook://facebook.com/inbox";
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(uri));
startActivity(intent);

the facebook.com part is not checked. you can even type: "facebook://gugus.com/inbox" having the same effect.

How to do this in adb.

1. Start adb shell through console: "adb shell"
2. run: "am start -a android.intent.action.VIEW -d facebook://facebook.com/inbox"

this will start the inbox activity. Here some Uris with examples. I think they speak for themselves what they do.

facebook://facebook.com/inbox
facebook://facebook.com/info?user=544410940     (id of the user. "patrick.boos" won't work)
facebook://facebook.com/wall
facebook://facebook.com/wall?user=544410940   (will only show the info if you have added it as friend. otherwise redirects to another activity)
facebook://facebook.com/notifications
facebook://facebook.com/photos
facebook://facebook.com/album
facebook://facebook.com/photo
facebook://facebook.com/newsfeed

there might be additianl parameters you can give to certain of those uris, but I have no time to go through all the code of those activities.

How did I do this? check out apktool.

Upvotes: 47

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