Run apps in Windows Phone

Question

I'm trying to make application, in which are used icons of some social sites, like facebook.

So the application looks like:

enter image description here

If you click on Facebook:

public void Facebook_Click()
{
    **Here must be code to detect installed applications**
    if (detected=true)
    {
          RunApplication (facebook);
    }
    else
    {
          OpenBrowser on page Facebook.com
    }
}

How to detect installed apps and run them?

Before saying it is impossible:

Auto-launching apps using file and URI associations for Windows Phone 8:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/jj206987(v=vs.105).aspx

Maybe someone tried this?

You can remove the Windows-phone-7 tags then, file and URI associations are only available for Windows Phone 8 — Kevin Gosse
The URI associations needs to be implemented in any app that wishes to be launched/interacted with by other apps. It is not a way for you to detect installed apps on the user's phone. — Alaa Masoud
unfortunately it's impossible. You can't get the list of installed apps. — Anton Sizikov

Christian Amado Christian Amado · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-09T14:31:26

there is no way to know what App are installed on the user's phone. You can open a link in web browser, but cannot do that with apps that haven't got URI associations as Alaa Masoud said.

Run apps in Windows Phone

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