Open a Twitter tweet by native Twitter app on android

android, twitter

Solution

On Android, you can use this link to open the tweet in the native Twitter app

twitter://status?status_id=197752514391715842

Problem

A tweet can be opened by Browser with the link of format: http://twitter.com/1Direction_X/statuses/197752514391715842 How do I open the above tweet by the native Twitter app from my app. With iOS, I can do by this statement: ``` [[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"twitter://status?id=197752514391715842"]]; ``` Thank you!

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