Open link to Facebook group in Facebook App on Android

Question

I want to send users from my website to a group on Facebook. I do not want the group to be opened in a browser , but in the Facebook App . I am using the following Javascript:

<script>

  userAgent = navigator.userAgent || navigator.vendor || window.opera;

  if(/iPad|iPhone|iPod/.test(userAgent) && !window.MSStream) {
    window.location = "fb://profile/123456789101112";
  } else if(/android/i.test(userAgent)) {
    window.location = "fb://profile/123456789101112";
  } else {
    window.location = "https://www.facebook.com/groups/groupname";
  }

</script>

This works fine on iOS (ie opens the Facebook group in the Facebook app ), but not on Android ("Content not available").

Any idea how I can achieve this on Android?

Answer 1

iOS and Android links does not have the same syntax (don't ask me why...)

For iOS it's "profile" (or "group"), and for Android it's "page" if you want to send to a page, or "group" if you want to redirect to a group.

For your question, it will be like this :

window.location = "fb://group/328556620888617";

Edit : Note that for iOS, you can use this syntax :

window.location = "fb://group?id=328556620888617";