Sending message to WhatsApp from your app using Swift?

Question

For one of my app, I wanted to share data to WhatsApp contacts. I tried few solutions overs the StackOverflow but couldn\'t get exact solution. After some trials could achie

Answer 1

Swift 5

Code

let urlWhats = "whatsapp://send?text=\("Hello World")"
if let urlString = urlWhats.addingPercentEncoding(withAllowedCharacters: NSCharacterSet.urlQueryAllowed) {
      if let whatsappURL = NSURL(string: urlString) {
            if UIApplication.shared.canOpenURL(whatsappURL as URL) {
                 UIApplication.shared.open(whatsappURL as URL)
             } 
             else {
                 print("please install watsapp")
             }
      }
}