system.openURL() opens Facebook app instead of browser

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#1

Hi,

I have a button in my app that suppose to open my facebook page. I’m using system.openURL to open the browser app with a certain URL but if I enter my facebook page URL (http://www.facebook.com/blablabla) it opens the FB app instead of browser.

Worse, it doesn’t open the facebook page that I want.

Is this a normal behaviour? what should I use to open my facebook page from the app?

Thanks

#2

Anybody had any luck working around this issue?  I see the same behavior, though it happens on iOS only, not Android.

#3

I have a similar issue. On the simulator it correctly opens facebook.com/mypage yet when I test on device it just opens up my timeline

#4

not sure why I couldn’t get it to work, but I’ve added another line of code in to check if the Facebook app is installed and it now works???

if(not system.openURL("fb://profile/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX")) then system.openURL("https://www.facebook.com/mypage") end

for XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX you find it on the https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/?method=GET&path=pagename

adding your page name on the “pagename” part of the link

#5

Anybody had any luck working around this issue?  I see the same behavior, though it happens on iOS only, not Android.

#6

I have a similar issue. On the simulator it correctly opens facebook.com/mypage yet when I test on device it just opens up my timeline

#7

not sure why I couldn’t get it to work, but I’ve added another line of code in to check if the Facebook app is installed and it now works???

if(not system.openURL("fb://profile/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX")) then system.openURL("https://www.facebook.com/mypage") end

for XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX you find it on the https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/?method=GET&path=pagename

adding your page name on the “pagename” part of the link

#8

Yeah we had this problem as well.  The thing that worked for us was to create a redirect page.  So our Facebook button would open up the redirect first, which in turn would open up the Facebook link inside of the browser instead of the Facebook App.

#9

Yeah we had this problem as well.  The thing that worked for us was to create a redirect page.  So our Facebook button would open up the redirect first, which in turn would open up the Facebook link inside of the browser instead of the Facebook App.

#10

Redirect to fb page in following way, it worked:

system.openURL( “https://m.facebook.com/XXXXXXXXXXXX” )

XXXXXXXXXXXX is the name of your Facebook page.

#11

Redirect to fb page in following way, it worked:

system.openURL( “https://m.facebook.com/XXXXXXXXXXXX” )

XXXXXXXXXXXX is the name of your Facebook page.