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

Best answer I have found, it's working great.

Just go to your page on Facebook in the browser, right click, and click on "View source code", then find the page_id attribute: you have to use page_id here in this line after the last back-slash:

fb://page/pageID

For example:

Intent facebookAppIntent;
try {
    facebookAppIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("fb://page/1883727135173361"));
    startActivity(facebookAppIntent);
} catch (ActivityNotFoundException e) {
    facebookAppIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("http://facebook.com/CryOut-RadioTv-1883727135173361"));
    startActivity(facebookAppIntent);
}