Open Facebook Page in Facebook App (if installed) on Android [duplicate]

Question

I would like to open my Facebook page from my Android app, if the Facebook app is available - if not: this page should be open in the default browser.

for this i tried the following code:

try {   Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("fb://profile/MY_PAGE_ID")); startActivity(intent); } catch (Exception e) {    startActivity(new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW,    Uri.parse("http://www.facebook.com/MY_PAGE_NAME"))); } 

Problem is: I have here an Android device with the newest version of Facebook. If I would like to open from my app the Facebook page, the Facebook app will open , but without my page.

I only see the message:

Trouble Loading Timeline.

What is wrong?

Answer 1

"fb://page/ does not work with newer versions of the FB app. You should use fb://facewebmodal/f?href= for newer versions.

This is a full fledged working code currently live in one of my apps:

public static String FACEBOOK_URL = "https://www.facebook.com/YourPageName"; public static String FACEBOOK_PAGE_ID = "YourPageName";  //method to get the right URL to use in the intent public String getFacebookPageURL(Context context) {         PackageManager packageManager = context.getPackageManager();         try {             int versionCode = packageManager.getPackageInfo("com.facebook.katana", 0).versionCode;             if (versionCode >= 3002850) { //newer versions of fb app                 return "fb://facewebmodal/f?href=" + FACEBOOK_URL;             } else { //older versions of fb app                 return "fb://page/" + FACEBOOK_PAGE_ID;             }         } catch (PackageManager.NameNotFoundException e) {             return FACEBOOK_URL; //normal web url         }     } 

This method will return the correct url for app if installed or web url if app is not installed.

Then start an intent as follows:

Intent facebookIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW); String facebookUrl = getFacebookPageURL(this); facebookIntent.setData(Uri.parse(facebookUrl)); startActivity(facebookIntent); 

That's all you need.