Open Instagram User Profile

Question

I managed to open the Twitter and Facebook user profile from my app. But I can not find any references to Instagram.

Is There a way to open Instagram in order to show a user profile like in twitter or facebook?

For instance, in order to get the Intent to launch the twitter application I do:

public Intent getOpenTwitterIntent(Context context) {      try {         return new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW,                 Uri.parse("twitter://user?screen_name="                         .concat(twitterUsername)));      } catch (Exception e) {         return new Intent(                 Intent.ACTION_VIEW,                 Uri.parse("https://twitter.com/#!/".concat(twitterUsername)));     }  } 

How can I achive something similar with Instagram? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Here is a method to get the Intent to open the Instagram app to the user's profile page:

/**  * Intent to open the official Instagram app to the user's profile. If the Instagram app is not  * installed then the Web Browser will be used.</p>  *   * Example usage:</p> {@code newInstagramProfileIntent(context.getPackageManager(),   *     "http://instagram.com/jaredrummler");}</p>  *   * @param pm  *            The {@link PackageManager}. You can find this class through  *            {@link Context#getPackageManager()}.  * @param url  *            The URL to the user's Instagram profile.  * @return The intent to open the Instagram app to the user's profile.  */ public static Intent newInstagramProfileIntent(PackageManager pm, String url) {     final Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);     try {         if (pm.getPackageInfo("com.instagram.android", 0) != null) {             if (url.endsWith("/")) {                 url = url.substring(0, url.length() - 1);             }             final String username = url.substring(url.lastIndexOf("/") + 1);             // http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21505941/intent-to-open-instagram-user-profile-on-android             intent.setData(Uri.parse("http://instagram.com/_u/" + username));             intent.setPackage("com.instagram.android");             return intent;         }     } catch (NameNotFoundException ignored) {     }     intent.setData(Uri.parse(url));     return intent; } 

Answer 2

So far I couldn't find a way to show user's profile directly.. but there is a way around..

Found this solution from Instagram Manifest from GitHub

 Intent iIntent = getPackageManager().getLaunchIntentForPackage("com.instagram.android");  iIntent.setComponent(new ComponentName( "com.instagram.android", "com.instagram.android.activity.UrlHandlerActivity")); iIntent.setData( Uri.parse( "http://instagram.com/p/gjfLqSBQTJ/") );  startActivity(iIntent); 

This will open particular image post by the user in the app. From the page app user can open the profile with the link inside.

If you want to open recent post or something , you can use Instagram API

This is not we want exactly , but the better option now... i guess :)