Share text OR Image On Whatsapp in Android

Question

I am developing an application in which i have to share image and text on WhatsApp with in my application.

In IOS i have this code

NSURL *whatsappURL = [NSURL URLWithString:@"whatsapp://send?text=Hello%2C%20World!&abid=143rnjk4545352523"];                                                             
if ([[UIApplication sharedApplication] canOpenURL: whatsappURL]) {
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL: whatsappURL];
}

How i will be able to do this in Android?Is there any possiblity to share text and images on whatsapp from Android app?

Answer 1

You can use Whatsapp intent to do so.

Note :- WhatsApp does not support messages with both pictures and text,so use below code to share text.

Share Text on Whatsapp

    Intent whatsappIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
    whatsappIntent.setType("text/plain");
    whatsappIntent.setPackage("com.whatsapp");
    whatsappIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "Hello World");
    try {
        activity.startActivity(whatsappIntent);
    } catch (android.content.ActivityNotFoundException ex) {
        ToastHelper.MakeShortText("Whatsapp have not been installed.");
    }

Share Image on Whatsapp

Intent whatsappIntent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND);
whatsappIntent.setType("image/*");
whatsappIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, Uri.parse("file://" + file));//add image path
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(share, "Share image using"));

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Update

Whatsapp now support text (consider as image caption) with image as

Intent whatsappIntent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND);
whatsappIntent.setType("image/*");
whatsappIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "Hello World");
whatsappIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, Uri.parse("file://" + file)); //add image path
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(share, "Share image using"));
try {
    activity.startActivity(whatsappIntent);
} catch (android.content.ActivityNotFoundException ex) {
    Toast.makeText(activity, "Whatsapp have not been installed.", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}