Open whatsapp using button

[pubg_tournament]

How do I open whatsapp using a button (just want to open Whatsapp not send a pre-defined message).
I have already tried https://api.whatsapp.com/ but it open up Whatsapp and give a message : “Couldnt open link”. please help!!

[The_K_Studio (Karan M.)]

Search on community this is asked and solved several times.

Data uri is wrong!

[Yash_Agarwal_376 (Yash aggarwal)]

Datauri - api.whatsapp.com/[countrycode][phone number]

[Rogerio_Rios (Professional Support)]

https://community.kodular.io/search?context=topic&context_id=72916&q=Open%20WhatsApp&skip_context=true
Did you try search ?

[pubg_tournament]

all of them just show sending message but i just wanna open the app nothing else not send any message

[pubg_tournament]

i dont wanna send any message just open whatsapp

[pubg_tournament]

do you know what the correct data uri is?

[The_K_Studio (Karan M.)]

Try this…enter number with country code without + sign

Just start Activity on button click. WhatsApp chat will open with entered number.

[pubg_tournament]

but i dont want to open chat with a number i just want the home screen of wa to open

[The_K_Studio (Karan M.)]

Try by changing

1. Activity action to VIEW in place of SEND
2. Class to com.whatsapp.main
3. Data uri empty

[Yash_Agarwal_376 (Yash aggarwal)]

Read this

Guide: How to start another app from my app (with activity starter)

There are several guides that teach us how to launch applications using activity starter. The problem is that they show us some examples and generally if we want to run some other application that is not in those guides, we can not do it because we lack data, such as packages and classes. And the guides in the community teach us to open the calculator, gmail and some other apps … but if we want to open a specific app, we do not know what data to put in the activity starter … To solve this I h…

[pubg_tournament]

doesnt work, same error “Couldn’t open link”

[Rogerio_Rios (Professional Support)]

Take it easy. Breathe, search. We’ve already given you N tips. Something you are not doing right.

[Yash_Agarwal_376 (Yash aggarwal)]

This is the solution
Click here for video

[pubg_tournament]

thank you this worked