Open Facebook page from Android app?

Question

from my Android app, I would like to open a link to a Facebook profile in the official Facebook app (if the app is installed, of course). For iPhone, there exists the

Answer 1

Here's the way to do it in 2016, works great, and is very easy.

I discovered this after looking into how emails send by facebook opened the app.

// e.g. if your URL is https://www.facebook.com/EXAMPLE_PAGE, you should put EXAMPLE_PAGE at the end of this URL, after the ?
String YourPageURL = "https://www.facebook.com/n/?YOUR_PAGE_NAME";
Intent browserIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(YourPageURL));

startActivity(browserIntent);