‘Share to WhatsApp’ Code for Android Developers

Most applications provide sharing to WhatsApp using the generic ‘Share’ intent. However, you may want to make the user directly share the content to WhatsApp without showing the App Chooser. Here’s a quick Java snippet for Android developers who want to directly integrate Share on WhatsApp functionality on their Android app. Create a button and set its onClick attribute to the onClickWhatsApp function below.

public void onClickWhatsApp(View view) {

    PackageManager pm=getPackageManager();
    try {

        Intent waIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
        waIntent.setType("text/plain");
        String text = "YOUR TEXT HERE";

        PackageInfo info=pm.getPackageInfo("com.whatsapp", PackageManager.GET_META_DATA);
        //Check if package exists or not. If not then code 
        //in catch block will be called
        waIntent.setPackage("com.whatsapp");

        waIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, text);
        startActivity(Intent.createChooser(waIntent, "Share with"));

   } catch (NameNotFoundException e) {
        Toast.makeText(this, "WhatsApp not Installed", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT)
                .show();
   }  
}

Credit: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15462874/sending-message-through-whatsapp

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