luismalves / cordova-plugin-vsms-whatsapp

cordova-plugin-vsms-whatsapp

This plugin opens a chat session with the given phonenumber in Whatsapp on Android.

The behavior is similar to the generic tel:, smsto:, or mailto: URL schemes on iOS and Android.
iOS supports a generic URL scheme for whatsapp ("whatsapp://send?abid=").
However on Android the URL scheme is currently not supported.
This plugin implements the send-via-whatsapp functionality on Android.

Methods

- cordova.plugins.Whatsapp.send

Example

Say you want to open a chat session with phone number: 111-222-3333

cordova.plugins.Whatsapp.send("1112223333");

This will open a chat session in Whatsapp for the target contact.

Installation

For cordova or ionic

    cordova plugin add https://github.com/presttec/cordova-plugin-vsms-whatsapp.git
    ionic   plugin add https://github.com/presttec/cordova-plugin-vsms-whatsapp.git

Add the following xml to all the app config.xml file:

    <!-- for Android -->
    <feature name="Whatsapp">
        <param name="android-package" value="br.com.vsms.Whatsapp" />
    </feature>