Send Whatsapp message to specific contact

Question

I followed this link and this is my code

Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(\"content://com.android.contacts/data/\" + \"MYNUMBER@s.whatsapp         


        

Answer 1

after googling a little, i found the following code

    public void onClickWhatsApp(View view) {

    Intent waIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
    waIntent.setType("text/plain");
            String text = "YOUR TEXT HERE";
    waIntent.setPackage("com.whatsapp");
    if (waIntent != null) {
        waIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, text);//
        startActivity(Intent.createChooser(waIntent, "Share with"));
    } else {
        Toast.makeText(this, "WhatsApp not Installed", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT)
                .show();
    }

}

so you can send an intent to send a message, but as far is ive read you cant send it to a specific contact

Answer 2

I found the right way to do this and is just simple after you read this article: http://howdygeeks.com/send-whatsapp-message-unsaved-number-android/

phone and message are both String.

Source code:

try {
            PackageManager packageManager = context.getPackageManager();
            Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
            String url = "https://api.whatsapp.com/send?phone="+ phone +"&text=" + URLEncoder.encode(message, "UTF-8");
            i.setPackage("com.whatsapp");
            i.setData(Uri.parse(url));
            if (i.resolveActivity(packageManager) != null) {
                context.startActivity(i);
            }
        } catch (Exception e){
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

Enjoy!