Starting a Song from Spotify Intent

Question

Is there anyway to start a Spotify Track from its URI ?

I've tried the following approaches but none of them work. When Spotify opens, it always lands in the Playlists page, instead of the track's player.

String spotifyTrackURI = "spotify:track:1cC9YJ8sQjC0T5H1fXMUT2";
Intent launchIntent = context.getPackageManager().getLaunchIntentForPackage("com.spotify.mobile.android.ui");

// I've tried with Intent#putExtra()..
launchIntent.putExtra( SearchManager.QUERY, spotifyTrackURI );
// or with setData
launchIntent.setData(Uri.parse(spotifyTrackURI))

context.startActivity(launchIntent);

Thanks

Answer 1

First one is for old Spotify version. For new versions you can use the second.

In this way it will first try with old version, if it fails with an exception it try with the second one :)

try {
                final Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MAIN);
                intent.setAction(MediaStore.INTENT_ACTION_MEDIA_PLAY_FROM_SEARCH);
                intent.setComponent(new ComponentName("com.spotify.mobile.android.ui", "com.spotify.mobile.android.ui.Launcher"));
                intent.putExtra(SearchManager.QUERY, artistName + " " + trackName );
                context.startActivity(intent);
            } catch ( ActivityNotFoundException e ) {
                final Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MAIN);
                intent.setAction(MediaStore.INTENT_ACTION_MEDIA_PLAY_FROM_SEARCH);
                intent.setComponent(new ComponentName("com.spotify.mobile.android.ui", "com.spotify.mobile.android.ui.activity.MainActivity"));
                intent.putExtra(SearchManager.QUERY, artistName + " " + trackName );
                context.startActivity(intent);
            }

Answer 2

If you get playlist for Artist on Spotify app. You need to start following intent. You do not need to package name or activity of Spotify.

Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("spotify:artist:" + "ARTIST SPOTIFY LINK"));
                startActivity(intent);

Answer 3

Found the answer on the #spotify channel on Freenode (irc). Thanks everyone!

I'm putting it here for other people to know about:

// right click on a track in Spotify to get the URI, or use the Web API.
String uri = "spotify:track:<spotify uri>"; 
Intent launcher = new Intent( Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(uri) );
startActivity(launcher);