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<p>To help users discover your published applications, you can use two special Android Market URIs

that direct users to your application's details page or perform a search for all of your published

applications in Android Market. You can use these URIs to do the following:</p>

applications in Android Market. You can use these URIs to create a button in your application or a

link on a web page that:</p>

<ul>

  <li>Create a button in your application or a link on a web page that opens one of your

application's details page in the Android Market application or web site.</li>

  <li>Create a button in your application or a link on a web page that searches for all your

published applications in the Android Market application or web site.</li>

  <li>Opens your application's details page in the Android Market application or web site.</li>

  <li>Searches for all your published applications in the Android Market application or web

site.</li>

</ul>

<p>You can launch the Android Market application or web site in the following ways:</p>

<ul>

  <li>Initiate an {@link android.content.Intent} from your application that launches the

Android Market application on the user's device. The intent must use the {@link

android.content.Intent#ACTION_VIEW} action, and include intent data with the appropriate

Android Market URI scheme.</li>

  <li>Provide a hyperlink on a web page that opens the Android Market web site.</li>

Android Market application on the user's device.</li>

  <li>Provide a link on a web page that opens the Android Market web site (but will also

open the Android Market application if clicked from a device).</li>

</ul>

<p>In both cases, you need to create a URI that indicates either the application you'd like to view

in Android Market or the search you'd like to perform. The URI is quite similar whether you want

to open the application or open the web site. The only difference is the URI prefix.</p>

<p>In both cases, whether you want to initiate the action from your application or from a web

page, the URIs are quite similar. The only difference is the URI prefix.</p>

<p>To open the Android Market application on the device, the prefix for the intent's data URI

is:</p>

<p>To open the Android Market application from your application, the prefix for the intent's data

URI is:</p>

<p style="margin-left:2em"><code>market://</code></p>

<p>To open the Android Market web site, the prefix for the link URI is:</p>

<p>To open Android Market from your web site, the prefix for the link URI is:</p>

<p style="margin-left:2em"><code>http://market.android.com/</code></p>

<p>To complete each URI, you must append a string that specifies either the

application for which you want to view or the search to execute. The following sections

describe how to create a complete URI for each case.</p>

<p>The following sections describe how to create a complete URI for each action.</p>

<p class="note"><strong>Note:</strong> If you create a link to open the Android Market web site and

the user selects it from an Android-powered device, the Android Market application will also resolve

the link so the user can use the native application instead of the web site. Also, because the

Android Market application also reads the {@code http://} URIs, you can also use them in an intent,

but you should usually use the {@code market://} URIs for an intent, so that the native application

is opened by default. You should use {@code http://} URIs only when creating links from a web

page.</p>

<p class="note"><strong>Note:</strong> If you create a link to open Android Market from your web

site and the user selects it from an Android-powered device, the device's Market application will

resolve the link so the user can use the Market application instead of opening the web

site. As such, you should always use {@code http://market.android.com/} URIs when creating a link on

a web page. When pointing to your apps from within your Android app, use the

{@code market://} URIs in an intent, so that the Market application always opens.</p>

<h3 id="OpeningDetails">Opening an app's details page</h3>

<p style="margin-left:2em"><code>&lt;URI_prefix&gt;<b>details?id=</b>&lt;package_name&gt;</code></p>

<p>The <code>&lt;package_name&gt;</code> is a placeholder for the target application's fully

qualified package name, as declared in the <a

<p>The <code>&lt;package_name&gt;</code> is a placeholder for the target application's

fully-qualified package name, as declared in the <a

href="{@docRoot}guide/topics/manifest/manifest-element.html#package">{@code

package}</a> attribute of the <a href="{@docRoot}guide/topics/manifest/manifest-element.html">{@code

&lt;manifest&gt;}</a> element in the application's manifest file.</p>

&lt;manifest&gt;}</a> element.</p>

<h4>Opening details in the Android Market application</h4>

<h4>Opening the app details page from your Android app</h4>

<p>To open the details page in the Android Market application, create an intent with the

{@link android.content.Intent#ACTION_VIEW} action and include a data URI in this format:</p>

<p>To open the Android Market details page from your application,

create an intent with the {@link android.content.Intent#ACTION_VIEW} action and include a data URI

in this format:</p>

<p style="margin-left:2em"><code>market://details?id=&lt;package_name&gt;</code></p>

<p>For example, here's how you can create an intent and open an application's details page in the

Android Market application:</p>

<p>For example, here's how you can create an intent and open an application's details page in

Android Market:</p>

<pre>

Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);

startActivity(intent);

</pre>

<p>This will open the Android Market application on the device to view the {@code

com.android.example} application.</p>

<h4>Opening details on the Android Market web site</h4>

<h4>Opening the app details page from a web site</h4>

<p>To open the details page on the Android Market web site, create a link with a URI in this

<p>To open the details page from your web site, create a link with a URI in this

format:</p>

<p style="margin-left:2em">

  <code>http://market.android.com/details?id=&lt;package_name&gt;</code>

</p>

<p>For example, here's a link that opens an application's details page on the Android Market web

site:</p>

<p>For example, here's a link that opens an application's details page on Android Market:</p>

<pre>

<a href="http://market.android.com/details?id=com.android.example">App Link</a>

</pre>

<p>When clicked from a desktop web browser, this opens the Android Market web site to view the

{@code com.android.example} application. When clicked from an Android-powered device, users are

given the option to use either their web browser or the Android Market application to view the

application.</p>

<h3 id="PerformingSearch">Performing a search</h3>

</ul>

<h4>Searching the Android Market application</h4>

<h4>Searching from your Android app</h4>

<p>To perform a search in the Android Market application, create an intent with the

<p>To initiate a search on Android Market from your application, create an intent with the

{@link android.content.Intent#ACTION_VIEW} action and include a data URI in this format:</p>

<p style="margin-left:2em"><code>market://search?q=&lt;query&gt;</code></p>

startActivity(intent);

</pre>

<p>The search result shows all applications published by the publisher and which are compatible with

the current device.</p>

<p>This opens the Android Market application to perform the search. The search result shows all

applications published by the publisher that are compatible with the current device.</p>

<h4>Searching the Android Market web site</h4>

<h4>Searching from a web site</h4>

<p>To perform a search on the Android Market web site, create a link with a URI in this

<p>To initiate a search on Android Market from your web site, create a link with a URI in this

format:</p>

<p style="margin-left:2em">

<p>The query may include the {@code pub:} parameter described above.</p>

<p>For example, here's a link that initiates a search on the Android Market web site, based on the

<p>For example, here's a link that initiates a search on Android Market, based on the

publisher name:</p>

<pre>

<a href="http://market.android.com/search?q=pub:Your Publisher Name">Search Link</a>

</pre>

<p>The search result shows all applications published by the publisher.</p>

<p>When clicked from a desktop web browser, this opens the Android Market web site and performs the

search. When clicked from an Android-powered device, users are given the option to use either their

web browser or the Android Market application to perform the search.</p>

<h3 id="BuildaButton">Build an Android Market button</h3>

<p>Use the following form to input either your application's package name or your publisher name

and generate a button that you can use on your web site. The button will take users to Android

Market to view your application details or view a list of all applications you've published.</p>

<p>Use the following form to generate an "Available in Android Market" button that you can use on

your web site. Input either your application's package name or publisher name and the button will

take users to Android Market to either view your application's information or view a list of

your published apps. If users click the button while on an Android-powered device, the Android

Market application will respond to show users your application(s).</p>

<p>This form offers four versions of the official "Available in Android Market" badge at

recommended sizes. If you would like to create a different size, you can download an EPS file for

the badges from the <a href="http://www.android.com/branding.html">Android Brand Guidelines</a>.</p>

<p>This form offers four versions of the official "Available in Android Market" button at

recommended sizes. If you want to create a different size, you can download an EPS file for

the button images from the <a href="http://www.android.com/branding.html">Android Brand

Guidelines</a>.</p>

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