Send text to specific contact programmatically (whatsapp)

Question

I wanted to know how I can send text to a specific whatsapp contact. I found some code to view a specific contact, but not to send data.

Cursor c = getContentResolver().query(ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI,
    new String[] { ContactsContract.Contacts.Data._ID }, ContactsContract.Data.DATA1 + "=?",
    new String[] { id }, null);
c.moveToFirst();
Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("content://com.android.contacts/data/" + c.getString(0)));

startActivity(i);
c.close();

This works fine for viewing a whatsapp-contact, but how can I add some text now? Or didn't the Whatsapp-developer implement such kind of an api?

Answer 1

I've found the right way to do this:

Source code: phone and message are both String.

    PackageManager packageManager = context.getPackageManager();
    Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);

    try {
        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 yourself!