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

From the documentation

To create your own link with a pre-filled message that will automatically appear in the text field of a chat, use https://wa.me/whatsappphonenumber/?text=urlencodedtext where whatsappphonenumber is a full phone number in international format and URL-encodedtext is the URL-encoded pre-filled message.

Example:https://wa.me/15551234567?text=I'm%20interested%20in%20your%20car%20for%20sale

Code example

val phoneNumber = "13492838472"
    val text = "Hey, you know... I love StackOverflow :)"
    val uri = Uri.parse("https://wa.me/$phoneNumber/?text=$text")
    val sendIntent = Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, uri)
    startActivity(sendIntent)