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I want to redirect the user to the Google Play Store application from my app, and i want to open the collection of Editor's choice as a default activity of the play store app.

in Documentation(OpeningCollection), it says that if you want to open the Editor's choice collection you should use : 

market://apps/collection/<collection_name>

I've tried this : 

Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
intent.setData(Uri.parse("market://apps/collection/editors_choice"));
startActivity(intent);

But it doesn't work , it always give ActivityNotFoundException : 

06-21 17:23:26.564: W/System.err(1820): android.content.ActivityNotFoundException: No Activity found to handle Intent { act=android.intent.action.VIEW dat=market }
06-21 17:23:26.564: W/System.err(1820):     at android.app.Instrumentation.checkStartActivityResult(Instrumentation.java)
06-21 17:23:26.564: W/System.err(1820):     at android.app.Instrumentation.execStartActivity(Instrumentation.java)
06-21 17:23:26.564: W/System.err(1820):     at android.app.Activity.startActivityForResult(Activity.java)
06-21 17:23:26.564: W/System.err(1820):     at android.app.Activity.startActivityForResult(Activity.java)
06-21 17:23:26.564: W/System.err(1820):     at android.support.v4.app.FragmentActivity.startActivityForResult(FragmentActivity.java:817)
06-21 17:23:26.564: W/System.err(1820):     at android.app.Activity.startActivity(Activity.java)
06-21 17:23:26.564: W/System.err(1820):     at android.app.Activity.startActivity(Activity.java)
06-21 17:23:26.564: W/System.err(1820):     at com.icompagnon.activities.ApplicationsSpaceActivity.onClick(ApplicationsSpaceActivity.java:92)
06-21 17:23:26.564: W/System.err(1820):     at android.view.View.performClick(View.java)
06-21 17:23:26.564: W/System.err(1820):     at android.view.View$PerformClick.run(View.java)
06-21 17:23:26.564: W/System.err(1820):     at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java)
06-21 17:23:26.564: W/System.err(1820):     at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java)
06-21 17:23:26.564: W/System.err(1820):     at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java)
06-21 17:23:26.564: W/System.err(1820):     at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java)
06-21 17:23:26.564: W/System.err(1820):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
06-21 17:23:26.564: W/System.err(1820):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java)
06-21 17:23:26.564: W/System.err(1820):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java)
06-21 17:23:26.564: W/System.err(1820):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java)
06-21 17:23:26.564: W/System.err(1820):     at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

When i try to open the details of some application it works ( example : google-maps app):

Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
intent.setData(Uri.parse("market://details?id=com.google.android.apps.maps"));
startActivity(intent);

But when i try to open the editor's choice activity , it returns exception. Is this an issue in Android ??

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  • What is "the editor's choice activity"? How have you tried to open it? We will also need the stack trace to be able to assist you much further.
    – CommonsWare
    Commented Jun 21, 2013 at 16:17
  • the code in my question is what i'm using to launch google play , refer the docs that i've putted in my question : developer.android.com/distribute/googleplay/promote/…
    – Houcine
    Commented Jun 21, 2013 at 16:19
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    We still need the stack trace to be able to assist you much further.
    – CommonsWare
    Commented Jun 21, 2013 at 16:22
  • @CommonsWare suggested stack trace will be handy..
    – CRUSADER
    Commented Jun 21, 2013 at 16:24
  • see my edits for the stack trace ,
    – Houcine
    Commented Jun 21, 2013 at 16:24

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Your copy of the Play Store does not support market://apps/collection/editors_choice.

You might try the alternative (http://play.google.com/store/apps/collection/editors_choice) to see whether the Play Store comes up as an available option. If it does, then that would suggest a documentation bug, and there's some different syntax for the market:// version of that Uri. If the Play Store does not come up as an option, that would suggest that your edition of the Play Store perhaps pre-dates the addition of support for those Uri structures.

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  • did you tried it on your device?? i've tried in my HTC ONE X with Jelly Bean 4.1.1 , and in Samsung Galaxy S III with ICS 4.0.3 and it doens't work . it looks like a documentation bug ?
    – Houcine
    Commented Jun 21, 2013 at 16:42
  • when i've tried the alternative, the Play Store comes up as an Available option. so can we say that would be a documentation bug ?
    – Houcine
    Commented Jun 21, 2013 at 16:45
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    @Houcine: Yes. I just downloaded ManifestViewer (play.google.com/store/apps/…) and examined the Play Store manifest. The activity that supports http://play.google.com/store URLs only supports market://search URLs. There is another activity that supports market://details, and that's all I see in the market: scheme. So, the documentation is out of sync with the current version of the Play Store, it seems.
    – CommonsWare
    Commented Jun 21, 2013 at 16:51
  • Thanks , that's it. and +1 for the app ManifestViewer ;-)
    – Houcine
    Commented Jun 21, 2013 at 17:07
  • @Houcine: I used to use another app for inspecting the manifest, but they dropped that feature. Up until today, I had not yet found an alternative. Your question led me to try again, where I found ManifestViewer. So, thank you for spurring me to find it! :-)
    – CommonsWare
    Commented Jun 21, 2013 at 17:14

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