Try this: startActivity(new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW,Uri.parse
("market://search?q=pname:" + packageName)));
See http://code.google.com/android/devel/sign-publish.html#marketintent
On Jan 3, 9:18 pm, Keith Wiley <[email protected]> wrote:
> I just can't find a simple bit of sample code online that shows how to
> do this so I'm trying to piece it together as best as I can. Any help
> is appreciated.
>
> I am following the suggestions on the doc page page about publishing
> w.r.t. notifying users of version updates. I already have a simple
> text file on my website that indicates the current version and I can
> successfully read the file and check the current version against the
> installed version, so I can notify the user that they need to update
> (this all works), but I can't help them by launching the market app,
> much less launching it with a specific query to my app's market page.
> Here's how I thought it should be done:
>
> Intent i = new Intent();
> i.setAction("ACTION_VIEW");
> Uri uri = Uri.parse("market://search?q=pname:<packageName>");
> i.setData(uri);
> try {
> startActivity(i);}
>
> catch (Exception e) {
> String es = e.getMessage();
> Log.v("", es);
>
> }
>
> It fails with a ActivityNotFoundException. It fails in an identical
> fashion with several other URIs, for example:
>
> http://market.android.com/search?q=pname:<packageName>
> market://search?q=pub:"My Name"
> market://search?q=MyFirstName
>
> I am doing all of these on the actual device, not the emulator, and
> the device has a network connection...if that makes a difference
> although I wouldn't expect it to be necessary.
>
> What's wrong?
>
> Thanks.
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