How To Open Vkontakte App With A Specific Friend?

Background In order to open Facebook app with a specific Facebook friend, you can use this intent: final Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(String.format('fb:

Solution 1:

The answer from developer is next:

Yes, it's done the same way:

finalIntentintent=newIntent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(String.format("vkontakte://profile/%d", friendId)));

If you need to open a community, use the same URL but add the minus sign to the community ID.

Question answered here

Solution 2:

Here is a list of url i found at VK app manifest

• http ://vk.com/.*
• http ://vkontakte.ru/.*
• https ://vk.com/.*
• https ://vkontakte.ru/.*
• http ://m.vk.com/.*

Note: remove space after http/https. SO won't let me post more than 2 links you can use any of that to launch vk from your app

here is how i do that

privatevoidsendIntentToVkApp() {
    Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
    intent.setData(Uri.parse("http://vk.com/hmrussia"));
    try {
        startActivity(intent);
    } catch (ActivityNotFoundException e) {
        Toast.makeText(this, e.getMessage(), Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
    }
}

and here is a part of VK Manifest where all the schemes are defined

<intent-filter><categoryandroid:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT"/><actionandroid:name="android.intent.action.VIEW"/><dataandroid:scheme="vklink"/></intent-filter><intent-filter><actionandroid:name="android.intent.action.VIEW"/><categoryandroid:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT"/><categoryandroid:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE"/><dataandroid:scheme="http"android:host="vk.com"android:pathPattern="/.*"/></intent-filter><intent-filter><actionandroid:name="android.intent.action.VIEW"/><categoryandroid:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT"/><categoryandroid:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE"/><dataandroid:scheme="http"android:host="vkontakte.ru"android:pathPattern="/.*"/></intent-filter><intent-filter><actionandroid:name="android.intent.action.VIEW"/><categoryandroid:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT"/><categoryandroid:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE"/><dataandroid:scheme="https"android:host="vk.com"android:pathPattern="/.*"/></intent-filter><intent-filter><actionandroid:name="android.intent.action.VIEW"/><categoryandroid:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT"/><categoryandroid:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE"/><dataandroid:scheme="https"android:host="vkontakte.ru"android:pathPattern="/.*"/></intent-filter><intent-filter><actionandroid:name="android.intent.action.VIEW"/><categoryandroid:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT"/><categoryandroid:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE"/><dataandroid:scheme="vkontakte"android:pathPattern="/.*"/></intent-filter>

Solution 3:

In Kotlin. This will open the app if installed, otherwise the browser will open.

privatefunopenVk(profileId: String) {
        val uri = Uri.parse("http://vk.com/$profileId")
        val intent = Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, uri)

        startActivity(intent)
    }