Question

How can I start an intent to open a Facebook application on a phone and navigate to the prefered page in Facebook?

I tried:

Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
intent.setClassName("com.facebook.katana", "com.facebook.katana.ProfileTabHostActivity");
intent.putExtra("extra_user_id", "123456789l");
this.startActivity(intent);

Well, whatever I write to “1234567891”, it is always navigating to my page. Always to me and not else.

How could I do this?

Answer 1

I had the exactly same problem, sent the user id but for some reason, my profile always opened instead of the friend’s profile.

The problem is that if you pass the String of the Long object that represents the Facebook UID, or even a long primitive type, the intent won’t be able to read it later. You need to pass a real Long.

So the complete code is:

    Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
    intent.setClassName("com.facebook.katana", "com.facebook.katana.ProfileTabHostActivity");
    Long uid = new Long("123456789");
    intent.putExtra("extra_user_id", uid);
    startActivity(intent);

Ok enjoy and hope this helps 🙂

Maxim