Send a message from IOS app to Whatsapp contact!! A little help needed
Ali_Wood
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Hi Everyone,
i posted yesterday about how to get twitter integrated into android apps made with GameSalad and i'm now making headway with Whatsapp on IOS
This is what i've done so far to get this working....
I noticed the Open URL behaviour can only do http,https and mailto functions which is no good for us, as in order to link to other apps you need to use their URL Scheme (Example FB:// or whatsapp://)
So what i've done is created a free website on Weebly and kept the page very basic and inserted a small piece of HTML that automatically redirects the user to Whatsapp along with the message i want posting.
If you want to test this and see how it works simply go to
http://whackoff.weebly.com (on your phone with Whatsapp installed)
After about a second Whatsapp will open and prompt you to nominate a user you want to send the message too. Chose someone and then the message will already be filled out in the message box!
So now in the Gamesalad game you simply have a button for "Share via Whatsapp" and insert your url to your free weebly site and there you go.
Below is the HTML it's very basic.... To insert HTML on weebly you just drag the "Embed code" button onto the screen.
What i need help with is finding how to insert a URL or picture into the message so then it would be grey for sharing! IF anyone could help that would be great