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vardhanReddy
vardhanReddy

Reputation: 165

Unable to share url link on whatsapp in ios8

I want to share a URL on whatsapp but it’s not working. If I share any text it’s working fine. Here is my code.

    NSString *msg = @"https://www.youtube.com/user/kidstvabcd";
    NSString *urlWhats = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"whatsapp://send?text=%@",msg];
    NSURL *whatsappURL = [NSURL URLWithString:[urlWhats    stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
    if ([[UIApplication sharedApplication] canOpenURL: whatsappURL])
      {
      [[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL: whatsappURL];
       }
     else
      {
   UIAlertView * alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"WhatsApp not installed."  message:@"Your device has no WhatsApp installed." delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:@"OK" otherButtonTitles:nil];
            [alert show];
       }

Thank you.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 839

Answers (2)

Andrea Ferrando
Andrea Ferrando

Reputation: 1

It's better if you do:

 msg = [msg stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];

This will add the escape percent where it's needed.

Upvotes: 0

swetha
swetha

Reputation: 152

 NSString *theTempMessage = @"https://www.youtube.com/user/kidstvabcd";

    theTempMessage = [theTempMessage stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@":" withString:@"%3A"];

    theTempMessage = [theTempMessage stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"/" withString:@"%2F"];

    theTempMessage = [theTempMessage stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"?" withString:@"%3F"];

    theTempMessage = [theTempMessage stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"," withString:@"%2C"];

    theTempMessage = [theTempMessage stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"=" withString:@"%3D"];

    NSString* theFinalMessage = [theTempMessage stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"&" withString:@"%26"];

    NSString * stringToSend=theFinalMessage;

    NSURL *whatsappURL = [NSURL URLWithString:stringToSend];

    if ([[UIApplication sharedApplication] canOpenURL: whatsappURL])

    {
        [[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL: whatsappURL];
    }
    else
    {

       //any alert message
    }

Upvotes: 4

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