React Native - can we share an image and text into whatsapp?

Question

I\'ve spent an hours to find a way to send/share an image (and text if possible) into whatsapp app using react native,

I\'ve read this question (in android) and this

Answer 1

I was using react native 0.59 version but still i was not able to share image and text(including a link) on whatsapp because the default react native share gets either message or url so it is necessary to use react-native-share library https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-share . I also used rn-fetch-blob library to convert image url to base64 image data.

shareImage= () => {
RNFetchBlob.fetch('GET', `https://example.com/example.png`)
  .then(resp => {
    console.log('response : ', resp);
    console.log(resp.data);
    let base64image = resp.data;
    share('data:image/png;base64,' + base64image);
  })
  .catch(err => errorHandler(err));

share = base64image => {
  console.log('base64image : ', base64image);
  let shareOptions = {
    title: 'Title',
    url: base64image,
    message: 'https://somelink.com some message',
    subject: 'Subject'
  };

  Share.open(shareOptions)
    .then(res => {
      console.log(res);
    })
    .catch(err => {
      err && console.log(err);
    });
};

};