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Pandurang Yachwad
Pandurang Yachwad

Reputation: 1723

Sending message to WhatsApp from your app using Swift?

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 achieve what I was looking for, so sharing here for anyone's future reference.

Upvotes: 20

Views: 32752

Answers (7)

ekscrypto
ekscrypto

Reputation: 3806

As per their FAQ, you should be using the universal links instead:

https://wa.me/1234567890

Reference: https://faq.whatsapp.com/563219570998715/?locale=en_US

Upvotes: 0

Nitin
Nitin

Reputation: 1543

Swift 5

Please follow the below steps for sharing on WhatsApp through URL Schemes

  1. Add this code in your app "info.plist"

<key>LSApplicationQueriesSchemes</key>
<array>
  <string>whatsapp</string>
</array>

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  1. For sharing text and URL

Code

    @IBAction func whatsappShareText(_ sender: AnyObject) {

    
        let message = "First Whatsapp Share & https://www.google.co.in"
        var queryCharSet = NSCharacterSet.urlQueryAllowed
        
        // if your text message contains special characters like **+ and &** then add this line
        queryCharSet.remove(charactersIn: "+&")
        
        if let escapedString = message.addingPercentEncoding(withAllowedCharacters: queryCharSet) {
            if let whatsappURL = URL(string: "whatsapp://send?text=\(escapedString)") {
                if UIApplication.shared.canOpenURL(whatsappURL) {
                    UIApplication.shared.open(whatsappURL, options: [: ], completionHandler: nil)
                } else {
                    debugPrint("please install WhatsApp")
                }
            }
        }
    }

Happy Coding!

Upvotes: 2

Barath
Barath

Reputation: 1754

Swift 5

Add whatsapp in LSApplicationQuerySchemes(Info.plist)

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")
             }
      }
}

Upvotes: 10

Lokesh Purohit
Lokesh Purohit

Reputation: 533

Addition to above solutions, starting from iOS 9, we need to add whatsapp to LSApplicationQueriesSchemes key in info.plist. After this only it worked for me.

screen shot of solution

Upvotes: 6

Pandurang Yachwad
Pandurang Yachwad

Reputation: 1723

 var url  = NSURL(string: "whatsapp://send?text=Hello%20Friends%2C%20Sharing%20some%20data%20here...%20!")

//Text which will be shared on WhatsApp is: "Hello Friends, Sharing some data here... !"

    if UIApplication.sharedApplication().canOpenURL(url!) {
        UIApplication.sharedApplication().open(url as URL, options: [:]) { (success) in
                if success {
                    print("WhatsApp accessed successfully")
                } else {
                    print("Error accessing WhatsApp")
                }
            }
    }

Note: text needs to be URL encoded. You can get it using any of the open source tools over internet or using addingPercentEncoding(withAllowedCharacters:) function in iOS. e.g.

var urlString = "Hello Friends, Sharing some data here... !"
var urlStringEncoded = urlString.addingPercentEncoding(withAllowedCharacters: NSCharacterSet.urlQueryAllowed)
var url  = NSURL(string: "whatsapp://send?text=\(urlStringEncoded!)")

Upvotes: 25

arunprasath sivasamy
arunprasath sivasamy

Reputation: 228

Swift 3.0

Try with this code for access watsapp in your application. Its working perfectly for me.

@IBAction func sendButtonAction(_ sender: Any)
{
    let date = Date()
    let msg = "Hi my dear friends\(date)"
    let urlWhats = "whatsapp://send?text=\(msg)"

    if let urlString = urlWhats.addingPercentEncoding(withAllowedCharacters: NSCharacterSet.urlQueryAllowed) {
        if let whatsappURL = NSURL(string: urlString) {
            if UIApplication.shared.canOpenURL(whatsappURL as URL) {
                UIApplication.shared.openURL(whatsappURL as URL)
            } else {
                print("please install watsapp")
            }
        }
    }
}

Upvotes: 7

Avinash Mishra
Avinash Mishra

Reputation: 797

My code is Looking Like this 

let encodeQuizStr = "Check Out The Quiz With link \n http://www.proprofs.com "

        let urlQuizStringEncoded = encodeQuizStr.addingPercentEncoding(withAllowedCharacters: NSCharacterSet.urlQueryAllowed)

        guard let whatsAppUrl = NSURL(string: "whatsapp://send?text="+urlQuizStringEncoded!) else { return }

        if UIApplication.shared.canOpenURL(whatsAppUrl as URL) {

            if #available(iOS 10.0, *) {
                print(urlQuizStringEncoded!)
                UIApplication.shared.open(whatsAppUrl as URL, options: [:], completionHandler: nil)
            } else {

                UIApplication.shared.openURL(whatsAppUrl as URL)

            }
        }
        else{


            ProjectUtility.AlertWith(self, message: " What's App is Not Available.", Title: "Sorry")
        }

working fine But When I put This URL 

("http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/story.php?title=pq-find-out-which-ice-age-character-you-are ")

Then Its Not Working Please Check Thanks.HelpWill Be Appriciated.

Upvotes: 2

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