Sending message through WhatsApp

Question

Since I found some older posts, that tell that whatsapp doesn\'t support this, I was wondering if something had changed and if there is a way to open a whatsapp \'chat\' wit

Answer 1

I found the following solution, first you'll need the whatsapp id:

Matching with reports from some other threads here and in other forums the login name I found was some sort of: international area code without the 0's or + in the beginning + phone number without the first 0 + @s.whatsapp.net

For example if you live in the Netherlands and having the phone number 0612325032 it would be 31612325023@s.whatsapp.net -> +31 for the Netherlands without the 0's or + and the phone number without the 0.

public void sendWhatsAppMessageTo(String whatsappid) {

Cursor c = getSherlockActivity().getContentResolver().query(ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI,
        new String[] { ContactsContract.Contacts.Data._ID }, ContactsContract.Data.DATA1 + "=?",
        new String[] { whatsappid }, null);
c.moveToFirst();

Intent whatsapp = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("content://com.android.contacts/data/" + c.getString(0)));
c.close();

 if (whatsapp != null) {

startActivity(whatsapp);      

} else {
        Toast.makeText(this, "WhatsApp not Installed", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT)
                .show();
//download for example after dialog
                Uri uri = Uri.parse("market://details?id=com.whatsapp");
                Intent goToMarket = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, uri);
    }

}