iOS Question is there any way to open whatsapp with especific number?

Semen Matusovskiy

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• Feb 14, 2021

• #2

Send message to some WhatsApp number

Hello, i did it in Android, but i could not find how to do it in iOS. Here is the code in B4A: Dim Intent1 As Intent Intent1.Initialize(Intent1.ACTION_VIEW, $"https://api.whatsapp.com/send?phone=55${number}&text=${""}"$) Intent1.SetComponent("android/com.android.internal.app.ResolverActivity")...

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omarruben

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• Feb 14, 2021

• #3

I am trying this code:

B4X:

Dim temp As String = "whatsapp://send?text=Hello%2C%20World!"
 Dim app As Application
 If app.CanOpenUrl(temp) Then app.OpenUrl(temp)

but I have this error:

-canOpenURL: failed for URL: "whatsapp://send?text=Hello%2C%20World!" - error: "This app is not allowed to query for scheme whatsapp"

 

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mcqueccu

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• Feb 14, 2021

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http://api.whatsapp.com/send?phone=xxxxxxxxxx

phone number in international format

 

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Semen Matusovskiy

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• Feb 14, 2021

• #5

1) Read carefully my topic. First of all, you need to add #QueriesSchemes : whatsapp
2) If you want to start a chat, you need to specify a phone nomber.

 

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omarruben

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• Feb 14, 2021

• #6

this code works fine, thank you all
and yes !!!! you need #QueriesSchemes : whatsapp
(thank you Semen Matusovskiy and mcqueccu)

and one last thing:

YOU MUST HAVE WHASAPP INSTALLED

B4X:

Sub OpenChatWithNumberW4b(numphone As String)
    Dim temp As String = "whatsapp://send?phone=112312345678&text=hello"
    Dim app As Application
    'Dim su As StringUtils
    'temp = su.EncodeUrl(temp,"UTF8")
    Log(temp)
    If app.CanOpenUrl(temp) Then app.OpenUrl(temp)
End Sub

 

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Kadandale Ganapathy Bhat

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• Feb 8, 2022

• #7

works very nice
Thank you

 

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nedium

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• Sep 12, 2022

• #8

Could you share an example of a complete project because it gives me an error with

#QueriesSchemes : whatsapp (Unsupported attribute: queriesschemes)

and with

Dim app As Application
(Undeclared variable 'app' is used before any value has been assigned to it.)


I wanted to know if I should add any other configuration

 

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aeric

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• Sep 12, 2022

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nedium said:

Could you share an example of a complete project because it gives me an error with

#QueriesSchemes : whatsapp (Unsupported attribute: queriesschemes)

and with

Dim app As Application
(Undeclared variable 'app' is used before any value has been assigned to it.)


I wanted to know if I should add any other configuration

Click to expand...

You should start a new thread. Are you using the code in B4i Main module?

 

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Alain75

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• Dec 7, 2022

• #10

No need to use javaobject :

Intent setPackage:

    strt.Initialize("android.intent.action.SENDTO","smsto:"&xxxx)
    strt.SetPackage("com.whatsapp")
    StartActivity(strt)

 

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