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Android open external IMDB application from my app

I have a button in my application which opens the imdb application in the phone with a imdb id I received from https://developers.themoviedb.org/3/getting-started/introduction
But I couldnt find anyway(using intents) to make my app recognize the imdb app and open it and if imdb app do not exist then I want to open the web site. How can I accomplish this?

I think I may be able to point you in the right direction. Just to be sure, you seem to be using TMDB but wish to open in the IMDB app?
The code below is from the Android documentation.
It will start your intent if the package manager can find an app with the appropriate intent filter installed on your device. If multiple apps are able to open this intent then an app chooser should pop up, unless the user has previously set a default for this kind of URI.
Intent sendIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
// Always use string resources for UI text.
// This says something like "Share this photo with"
String title = getResources().getString(R.string.chooser_title);
// Create intent to show the chooser dialog
Intent chooser = Intent.createChooser(sendIntent, title);
// Verify the original intent will resolve to at least one activity
if (sendIntent.resolveActivity(getPackageManager()) != null) {
startActivity(chooser);
}
If you add an else onto that then you can use a view intent like this :
Intent internetIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(movieUrl));
//Watch out here , There is a URI and Uri class!!!!
if (internetIntent.resolveActivity(getPackageManager()) != null){
startActivity(internetIntent);
}
I also found this (rather old) post about calling an explicit imdb uri
Imdb description
startActivity(android.intent.action.VIEW, imdb:///title/<titleID>);
// take note of the Uri scheme "imdb"
I hope this helps. If you post some more detail , code, links , I might be able to work through this with you.
If my answer is way off base then please be kind and set me right. We are all learning every day!
Good Luck.

does google play automatically creates shortcut of our app on home screen?

I'm about to launch my first app in a week,and want to know if google play automatically adds the shortcut to the home-screen or is it something if have to do with code. I have question like this but there's nothing about creating shortcut on install.

I launched my app found that Google Play does automatically creates a shortcut on the homescreen and we don't have to do it in our code,although i don't know if it works the same way in Amazon app store. hope this helps someone who is trying to find answer to the same question.

Mohit Madaan's answer was correct. Just don't forget to set duplicate to false otherwise you might have several shortcuts:
addIntent.putExtra("duplicate", false);

put this permission in manifest
<uses-permission android:name="com.android.launcher.permission.INSTALL_SHORTCUT"/>
below for creating the shortcut icon on android Homescreen
private void ShortcutIcon(){
Intent shortcutIntent = new Intent(getApplicationContext(), MainActivity.class);
shortcutIntent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
shortcutIntent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
Intent addIntent = new Intent();
addIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SHORTCUT_INTENT, shortcutIntent);
addIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SHORTCUT_NAME, "Test");
addIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SHORTCUT_ICON_RESOURCE, Intent.ShortcutIconResource.fromContext(getApplicationContext(), R.drawable.ic_launcher));
addIntent.setAction("com.android.launcher.action.INSTALL_SHORTCUT");
getApplicationContext().sendBroadcast(addIntent);}

I came across this and I hope this helps you. http://viralpatel.net/blogs/android-install-uninstall-shortcut-example/

Android Select File Intent

I'm trying to pick a file via an Intent.
What I tryed till now is this:
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT);
intent.setType("*/*");
startActivityForResult(intent, FILE_SELECT_CODE);
But with this, I can only pic Photos with the galery app.
My goal is to pic ANY file via the standard file manager of Android/Samsung.
This didn't work either:
String manufactures = android.os.Build.MANUFACTURER;
if(manufactures.equalsIgnoreCase("samsung"))
{
Intent intent = new Intent("com.sec.android.app.myfiles.PICK_DATA");
intent.putExtra("CONTENT_TYPE", "*/*");
startActivityForResult(intent, FILE_SELECT_CODE);
}
Thx for your help!

My goal is to pic ANY file via the standard file manager of Android/Samsung.
Android does not have a "standard file manager".
If your minSdkVersion is 19 or higher, you are welcome to use the Storage Access Framework (e.g., ACTION_OPEN_DOCUMENT), which is the closest thing that Android now has to a "standard file manager".
Otherwise, you are limited to whatever ACTION_GET_CONTENT-supporting apps that the user has installed, or creating your own file-selection UI, or using one of many existing libraries for selecting files.

Android - Call an activity of an integrated application

Mixare has an application (Open source) that lets you view POIs with your camera. It gives you the possibility to call the app from your application thanks to this :
Intent i = new Intent();
i.setAction(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
i.setDataAndType(Uri.parse("http://ws.geonames.org/findNearbyWikipediaJSON"), "application/mixare-json");
startActivity(i);
The problem is that user must have the app installed in addition to my app, so what I did is that I imported the whole app within mine, with all its resources and stuff.
But I don't know how to call the main activity MainActivity.java, which resides in the package org.mixare.
How can I make an intent to call this activity ? And how do I declare it in the manifest ?

If you have added the code and resources of the app to your own app, then you should declare and call it's activities as they were your own.
Intent i = new Intent(this, MainActivity.class);
startActivity(i);
This being said, it's not a trivial task. You need to merge AndroidManifest and could get into trouble if you don't know what you're doing. For instance, user can have the Mixare app in addition to yours and intent could have same actions etc.
There is an alternative to this. You could check if Mixare app is installed and if not ask user to do so. This could be more "android way of doing things", depending on your use case.

Look at,
http://code.google.com/p/mixare/wiki/DisplayYourOwnData for how to start mixare via Intent.
Alternatively, you can use mixare as your library project and then call its MainActivity class directly from your application as Using an Android library project Activity within another project.
Quoting the same here -
Declaring library components in the manifest file
In the manifest file of the application project, you must add
declarations of all components that the application will use that are
imported from a library project. For example, you must declare any
, , , , and so on, as well as
, , and similar elements.
Declarations should reference the library components by their
fully-qualified package names, where appropriate.
Then you can definitely call,
Intent intent = new Intent(this, MainActivity.class);
startActivity(intent);

No, it is very hard to do a 2+2=4 kind of addition of manifest files etc.
I see there are two ways to handle this:
Use the external app: Check if the user has external app you want him to have. Else, direct him to the right link. You can get the package name of the publiched app and use it in this function:
private boolean appInstalledOrNot(String uri) {
PackageManager pm = getPackageManager();
boolean app_installed = false;
try {
pm.getPackageInfo(uri, PackageManager.GET_ACTIVITIES);
app_installed = true;
}
catch (PackageManager.NameNotFoundException e) {
app_installed = false;
}
return app_installed ;
}
Combining code: This has no direct/correct answer. You need to study the code and integrate with your existing one.

//appPackageName,appClassName can be found in Logcat
ComponentName component = new ComponentName("appPackageName","appClassName");
Intent intent = new Intent();
intent.setComponent(component);
startActivity(intent);

send mms without user interaction in android

Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SENDTO);
intent.putExtra("address", "12134567899");
intent.putExtra("sms_body", "See attached picture");
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM,
Uri.parse("file:///sdcard/DCIM/Camera/2011-09-09 12.47.29.jpg"));
intent.setType("image/png");
intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
startActivity(intent);
i try code like this. if intent start mms compose ui was coming how can i overcome and send automatically

First of all. good luck.
Since MMS isn't supported by the android sdk, you have 2 options:
download the android mms aplication and try to understand what's going on there.
follow this link:
http://androidbridge.blogspot.com/2011/03/how-to-send-mms-programmatically-in.html
only thing I found working at the moment....

This feature was designed as a safety feature in Android, please do not try to bypass it. It's there for a reason.
If you absolutly must, have you tried running it on a rooted device? It allows greater access.

try this its worked with me .
use
Uri.fromFile
instead of
Uri.parse
File f=new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getAbsolutePath()+"/DCIM/Camera/"+img_name);
Intent sendIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
sendIntent.putExtra("", "");
sendIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, Uri.fromFile(f));
sendIntent.setType("image/png");
startActivity(sendIntent);