Linking to album in Google Play Music store?

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

I’m featuring a friend’s music in my next game, and I’d like to show a message that says, “Like the music? Get it on Google Play”, which when tapped would open up the page for that particular album on the Play store. I know how to do this for an app with native.showPopup , but that requires a package name, and I’m not sure music albums have package names. Anyone know how to accomplish this?

I’m using the Starter (free) version of Corona.

#2

You will probably have to use system.openURL() to open the page.  The URL structure for music and apps is different.  There is a query string parameter at the end which you could try.  For instance for one of Katy Perry’s albums this is:  ?id=Byp3z7ylde5lubnwzrlcc6ixpyu.  For apps its ?id=com.yourcompany.yourapp so native.showPopup might work, but I suspect you will need to do the system.openURL() call.

Rob

#3

You will probably have to use system.openURL() to open the page.  The URL structure for music and apps is different.  There is a query string parameter at the end which you could try.  For instance for one of Katy Perry’s albums this is:  ?id=Byp3z7ylde5lubnwzrlcc6ixpyu.  For apps its ?id=com.yourcompany.yourapp so native.showPopup might work, but I suspect you will need to do the system.openURL() call.

Rob