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

Declare constants

  private String FACEBOOK_URL="https://www.facebook.com/approids";
    private String FACEBOOK_PAGE_ID="approids";

Declare Method

public String getFacebookPageURL(Context context) {
        PackageManager packageManager = context.getPackageManager();
        try {
            int versionCode = packageManager.getPackageInfo("com.facebook.katana", 0).versionCode;

            boolean activated =  packageManager.getApplicationInfo("com.facebook.katana", 0).enabled;
            if(activated){
                if ((versionCode >= 3002850)) {
                    Log.d("main","fb first url");
                    return "fb://facewebmodal/f?href=" + FACEBOOK_URL;
                } else {
                    return "fb://page/" + FACEBOOK_PAGE_ID;
                }
            }else{
                return FACEBOOK_URL;
            }
        } catch (PackageManager.NameNotFoundException e) {
            return FACEBOOK_URL;
        }
    }

Call Function

Intent facebookIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
                String facebookUrl = getFacebookPageURL(MainActivity.this);
                facebookIntent.setData(Uri.parse(facebookUrl));
                startActivity(facebookIntent);