Android Question How to make whatsapp call with intent

Erel said:

B4X:

Dim in As Intent
in.Initialize(in.ACTION_VIEW, "content://com.android.contacts/data/" & dataId)
in.SetType("vnd.android.cursor.item/vnd.com.whatsapp.profile")
in.SetPackage("com.whatsapp")
Try
 StartActivity(in)
Catch
 Log("whatsapp not installed")
End Try

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syerif said:

Is dataid from content resolver or can use direct variable with phone number?

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Erel said:

B4X:

Dim in As Intent
in.Initialize(in.ACTION_VIEW, "content://com.android.contacts/data/" & dataId)
in.SetType("vnd.android.cursor.item/vnd.com.whatsapp.profile")
in.SetPackage("com.whatsapp")
Try
StartActivity(in)
Catch
Log("whatsapp not installed")
End Try

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Dim in As Intent
    Dim tc As Technis
    Dim dataid As String=tc.GetContactIDbyPhone("62xxxxxx")
    Log(dataid)
    Dim name As String = tc.GetContactNamebyPhone("62xxxxxx")
    'Log(name)
    in.Initialize(in.ACTION_VIEW, "content://com.android.contacts/data/" & dataid)
    in.SetType("vnd.android.cursor.item/vnd.com.whatsapp.profile")
    in.SetPackage("com.whatsapp")
    Try
        StartActivity(in)
    Catch
        Log("whatsapp not installed")
    End Try

jahswant said:

Java:

String data = "content://com.android.contacts/data/" + dataId;
            String type = "vnd.android.cursor.item/vnd.com.whatsapp.profile";
            Intent sendIntent = new Intent();
            sendIntent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
            sendIntent.setDataAndType(Uri.parse(data), type);
            sendIntent.setPackage("com.whatsapp");
startActivity(sendIntent);

POSSIBLE SOLUTION FOUND HERE :

Android Intent to call Whatsapp from code

I am using this code to call WhatsApp directly from my Call Logs app. This works well, but only if the phone number includes a valid country code. For example calling WhatsApp with 919789006685 wo...

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DonManfred said:

Use Google to find out a possible Intent.
We can help you porting it to B4A.

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