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Tom
Tom

Reputation: 241

Android Intent to launch appropriate chat client

In my application, I'd like to provide a Chat button. In the context of a specific contact, the user is shown a list of the contact methods available. For example, it might list a Google Talk ID and an AIM ID. The user can click on either ID and it should launch the appropriate application that handles the selected chat protocol (if one is installed). Given that I have the protocol and the ID (e.g., PROTOCOL_GOOGLE_TALK and "JohnDoeGtalk"), how can I create an intent that does that?

Thanks.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1424

Answers (2)

Geir Sagberg
Geir Sagberg

Reputation: 9821

Have you tried adding @gmail.com in your URI?

The following approach, taken from here, works for me; it opens a new chat with the contact, using the Google Talk app. Using HTC Desire running Froyo. Code:

Uri imUri = new Uri.Builder().scheme("imto").authority("gtalk").appendPath("[email protected]").build();
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SENDTO, imUri);
startActivity(intent);

Upvotes: 1

CommonsWare
CommonsWare

Reputation: 1007340

An ACTION_SENDTO Intent with a Uri whose scheme is imto://... may work. See this issue and comment #2 for the apparently-valid syntax. Note that I have not tried this, and this issue is from quite some time ago.

Upvotes: 0

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