Open Instagram from Android Browser

Question

Intent, hooks, API, integration, dozen of cryptic javascripts, xml schemas, URL interpreters, helpers, frameworks...

It's 3 days that i'm reading blogs, SDK, tutorials to achive a very simple goal: open Instagram by clicking an URL in the Android browser. I find it a bit incredible that i needed 5 minutes to make it on iOS. I don't even know what code i should share since i don't even succeded in having an error... at least it would be something!

To make it short i have an Android phone. I open the browser to visit my website. Now i want to add a link to open Instagram camera. On iOS i simply reference to:

<a href="instagram://app">Open Instagram</a>
<a href="instagram://camera">Take a picture</a>

Is it really that hard to code the same thing on Android? I'm not looking to make it inside another App. It's just a normal website.

Answer 1

After a lot of researches and tests - yeah, even more :S - i can finally state that it's not possible unless you want to force your visitors to manually download additional contents. I don't like it. It isn't an elegant and easy solution.

Please notice that i'm only talking for websites. You you are developing an App you can achive this quite easily with intents.