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Android: Special url to open Marketplace to a specific app?

Hi,

Is there a url format available such that clicking on the url will open the Android (Gphone) Marketplace to a particular app's page for installation?

Does it work with the 'current' Android OS ver in the wild?

Eg, can I put something on my customized Android website better than

  1. Please open the Marketplace application,
  2. search for FBReader
  3. then install it

The app that I want to point people to is the epub reader, FBReader http://www.fbreader.org/FBReaderJ/

Thanks,

Larry

+1  A: 

Try this.

CommonsWare  2009-10-13 23:20:03
Hmmm, thanks. It appears from the page you referenced that "Note that these URIs work only when passed as intent data — you can't currently load the URIs in a web browser, either on a desktop machine or on the device."So it seems that I can NOT do what I wanted--sigh.
Larry K  2009-10-14 01:58:22
I am under the impression that they work in the Browser application on the device, as AshtonBRSC's sample indicates. They definitely do not work on a desktop.
CommonsWare  2009-10-14 10:01:12
So they work despite the Android docs disclaimer. Thanks.
Larry K  2009-10-14 15:15:05
+1  A: 

See this web page for an example of how to set up the links. They do work from the Android Browser.

http://www.moblyng.com/gphoneLink.php

AshtonBRSC  2009-10-14 08:39:02
Excellent! Thanks!
Larry K  2009-10-14 15:13:09
A: 

I looked around your website and didn't see that you had figured this out for your site so I thought I'd share what I learned recently. If you create a link to: market://search?q=org.geometerplus.zlibrary.ui.android

This will link directly to your app in the marketplace.

Brian  2010-09-15 15:30:18
No, that links to a search that returns a single result. `market://details?id=org.geometerplus.zlibrary.ui.android` links to the details.
Christopher  2010-09-15 16:14:11

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