Share application «link» in Android
I want my application user to be able to share/recommend my app to other users. I use the ACTION_SEND intent. I add plain text saying something along the lines of: install this cool application. But I can’t find a way to enable users to directly go to the install screen of market place for instance. All I can provide them with is a web link or some text. In other words I am looking for a very direct way for android users to have my app installed.
Thanks for any help/pointers,
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This will let you choose from email, whatsapp or whatever.
You can use also ShareCompat class from support library.
You would want to provide your users with a market:// link which will bring them directly to the details page of your app. The following is from developer.android.com:
Loading an application’s Details page
In Android Market, every application has a Details page that provides an overview of the application for users. For example, the page includes a short description of the app and screen shots of it in use, if supplied by the developer, as well as feedback from users and information about the developer. The Details page also includes an «Install» button that lets the user trigger the download/purchase of the application.
If you want to refer the user to a specific application, your application can take the user directly to the application’s Details page. To do so, your application sends an ACTION_VIEW Intent that includes a URI and query parameter in this format:
In this case, the packagename parameter is target application’s fully qualified package name, as declared in the package attribute of the manifest element in the application’s manifest file. For example:
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