Open up android app via Application.OpenURL

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I’m trying to open up another application on my android device. I’ve searched for weeks about how to do this via a plugin and there is a shockingly low amount of information on how to do this. Even the unity docs are pretty terrible.

However, I have discovered the Application.OpenURL which is letting me do part of my required functionality natively. Right now I have the following line of code:

Application.OpenURL ("market://search?q=com.android.chrome");

This is letting me search the play store for an app (in the above case, Chrome) but I was wondering if anyone knew the code I had to put in so I open up chrome as opposed to simply looking for it on the app store?

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I’m afraid this is not possible via Application.OpenURL or any other standard Unity class/method. You have to write an Android plugin.

For a reference related to Android code part, see the this question at SO. And if you don’t know what intent is, and how Android apps work in general, then looking at Android SDK might be a good idea. For example, some info related to apps interaction might be found here.