How do I programmatically launch the "Google Play Games Profile" Game Page

Question

I want to directly launch the Google Play Game Page for my game programmatically when the player hits this button from the game screen:

An example of the page I want to launch to is:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8Xfkv7Sp0JzdzJiWWpFWG8zNHoydnMzWkwzZVJWZDJuUXZr/view?usp=sharing

Any thoughts/suggestions on doing this?

PS. I've just taken a random awesome game "BADLAND" as an example :). Hope that's okay!

Answer 1

It has been a while so I don't know if you found the answer already but I have been working on essentially the same thing today and figured I would share my solution. I found no sources on this online and ended up decompiling the app to look at what it expects for the intents to launch it.

Intent intent = new Intent();
//Clear the activity so the back button returns to your app
intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
//Manually specify the package and activity name
intent.setComponent(new ComponentName("com.google.android.play.games", "com.google.android.gms.games.ui.destination.api.ApiActivity"));
//Not really needed as default happens if you don't specify it.
intent.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_DEFAULT);
//You must specify the current players user. It ensures that Google Play Games is logged in as the same person.
intent.putExtra("com.google.android.gms.games.ACCOUNT_KEY", Games.Players.getCurrentPlayerId(googleApiClient));
intent.putExtra("com.google.android.gms.games.SCREEN", 1050); //"Magic" number from the source code for the about page
intent.putExtra("com.google.android.gms.games.GAME", Games.GamesMetadata.getCurrentGame(googleApiClient));
startActivity(intent);

Note that the page itself uses a hard coded number. I tested over several versions of Google Play Games and they worked but I still haven't found where the value is defined. You may also want to add in some error handling for cases such as Google Play Games not being installed.

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