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I'd like to launch Whatsapp from my Flutter app for a specific contact on the user's device. I'm able to do that successfully using url launcher as described in many questions on the subject (like this one this one).

The way it works, it opens an in-app web browser, which then prompts the user to open Whatsapp. On iOS, it then prompts the user with a dialog "Open this page in WhatsApp?"

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Is there a way to always allow that? So that the user doesn't have to hit that each time they want to connect to someone on Whatsapp from my app?

Mr. Oak
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Use the LaunchMode enum which is used to state the desired mode to launch a URL.

Future<bool> launchUrl(
Uri url,
{LaunchMode mode = LaunchMode.externalApplication}
);

LaunchMode.externalApplication is supported on all platforms. On iOS, this should be used in cases where sharing the cookies of the user's browser is important, such as SSO flows, since Safari View Controller does not share the browser's context.

Aditya Thakur
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