Android YouTube app Play Video Intent

Question

I have created a app where you can download YouTube videos for android. Now, I want it so that if you play a video in the YouTube native app you can download it too. To do t

Answer 1

EDIT: The below implementation proved to have problems on at least some HTC devices (they crashed). For that reason I don't use setclassname and stick with the action chooser menu. I strongly discourage using my old implementation.

Following is the old implementation:

Intent intent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(youtubelink));
if(Utility.isAppInstalled("com.google.android.youtube", getActivity())) {
    intent.setClassName("com.google.android.youtube", "com.google.android.youtube.WatchActivity");
}
startActivity(intent);

Where Utility is my own personal utility class with following methode:

public static boolean isAppInstalled(String uri, Context context) {
    PackageManager pm = context.getPackageManager();
    boolean installed = false;
    try {
        pm.getPackageInfo(uri, PackageManager.GET_ACTIVITIES);
        installed = true;
    } catch (PackageManager.NameNotFoundException e) {
        installed = false;
    }
    return installed;
}

First I check if youtube is installed, if it is installed, I tell android which package I prefer to open my intent.