PhoneGap and WhatsApp

android html cordova whatsapp
John Doe picture John Doe · Mar 2, 2015 · Viewed 11.9k times · Source

I hope you'll can help me to find an issue to my problem.

I'm developping an application who should use WhatsApp. This application is using HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript. I am using this link to send an message with WhatsApp :

<a href="whatsapp://send?text=Test 1">

This link work perfectly when you use directly a browser but when I use PhoneGap I have a error like this :

net::ERR_UNKNOWN_URL_SCHEME

I have tested some issues but doesn't work. I have also checked the Documentation but nothing...

Can you help me please ?

Thanks

EDIT

Here is the solution to my problem (thanks to @jcesarmobile):

<access origin="whatsapp:*" launch-external="yes" />

Many thanks :)

Answer

jcesarmobile picture jcesarmobile · Mar 2, 2015

Edit for newer cordova versions:

Use <allow-intent href="whatsapp:*" />

Old answer:

Add this line to your config.xml

<access origin="whatsapp:*" launch-external="yes" />

Or use the social sharing plugin

https://github.com/EddyVerbruggen/SocialSharing-PhoneGap-Plugin

<button onclick="window.plugins.socialsharing.shareViaWhatsApp('Message via WhatsApp', null /* img */, null /* url */, function() {console.log('share ok')}, function(errormsg){alert(errormsg)})">msg via WhatsApp (with errcallback)</button>

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