how to open youtube app from android application

Question

i have youtube button which will open a particular *channel* for that i want it to open in youtube *application* in order to access a channel from my application.

Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW , Uri.parse("https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRmoG8dTnv0B7y9uoocikLw"));
context.startActivity(intent);

But it is opening in browser.

Answer 1

Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
            intent.setData(Uri.parse("https://www.youtube.com/"));
            intent.setPackage("com.google.android.youtube");
            PackageManager manager = getPackageManager();
            List<ResolveInfo> info = manager.queryIntentActivities(intent, 0);
            if (info.size() > 0) {
                startActivity(intent);
            } else {
                //No Application can handle your intent
            }

This is how u can achieve.. providing only "https://www.youtube.com/" will directly land you into home feed. While one can definitely customize url to redirect to particular channel or video.

Answer 2

You should explicitly send it to youtube. You can do this by specifing the package:

intent.setComponent(new ComponentName("com.google.android.youtube","com.google.android.youtube.PlayerActivity"));

Also note that you should also check if youtube is installed!

Intent intent = new Intent(
    Intent.ACTION_VIEW , 
    Uri.parse("https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRmoG8dTnv0B7y9uoocikLw"));
intent.setComponent(new ComponentName("com.google.android.youtube","com.google.android.youtube.PlayerActivity"));

PackageManager manager = context.getPackageManager();
List<ResolveInfo> infos = manager.queryIntentActivities(intent, 0);
if (infos.size() > 0) {
     context.startActivity(intent);
}else{
     //No Application can handle your intent
}

Answer 3

I found this to be a simple way to do this (assumes you already checked that YouTube is installed):

Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
intent.setData(Uri.parse("https://www.youtube.com/**YOURCHANNEL**"));
intent.setPackage("com.google.android.youtube");
startActivity(intent);