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WhatsApp Messenger is a proprietary, cross-platform instant messaging application for smartphones. In addition to basic messaging and video calling, WhatsApp Messenger users can send each other images, video and audio media messages.

WhatsApp Messenger is a cross-platform mobile messenger supporting end-to-end encryption. It replaces SMS and works through the existing internet data plan of a device. Aside from supporting text messages, it also supports sharing (GIF) images, videos and audio messages.

WhatsApp is available for iPhone, Android and Windows Phone devices. It can additionally be accessed via the internet browser of desktops.

For more information, visit WhatsApp.com or read the Wikipedia entry on WhatsApp.

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Mobile website "WhatsApp" button to send message to a specific number

A mobile website can be customized to allow users to share a pre-filled message in WhatsApp to a manually chosen contact. As given here it is done using Custom URL Scheme. An example: Hello,…
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Get all messages from Whatsapp

I'm trying to implement an app that will show in a textview all the messages received from Whatsapp. Is there any way to do it? Is it possible to extract all the messages from Whatsapp?
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How does the web version of Whatsapp work on iOS devices considering the OS shuts apps in 30 seconds?

Now for those who don't know, can go to https://web.whatsapp.com/ and sync your Whatsapp chats by exchanging a QR code and chat via the web extension of the app. I am not interested in how they have an initial handshake( might be communicating with…
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Why do whatsapp web application needs phone connection all the time?

WhatsApp just announced a new web application see here. For some reason, the interface requires the phone to be connected all the time. Is it for performance reasons (not to create additional load on their current servers)? Is there any other…
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iOS share image AND text to WhatsApp

I have googled, and get some solutions, it seems the only possible way is thru UIDocumentInteractionController. I have found the result that able to share text ONLY, also found result that share image ONLY. But what I want is share BOTH. I know this…
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How did WhatsApp achieve 2 million connections per server?

On Ubuntu, the maximum number of sockets which can be opened seems to be governed from following: $ cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_max_orphans 262144 As per one of the presentations by Rick Reed (from WhatsApp), these guys took it up to 2 million…
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React native send a message to specific whatsapp Number

I'm trying to send a text message to a WhatsApp contact from a react-native apps , i found that i can do it through Linking Linking.openURL('whatsapp://send?text=hello'); the code above opens only whats app , i need to open a chat with a specific…
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"This item cannot be shared. Please select a different item." WhatsApp iOS share extension failure message

This bug is fixed by WhatsApp team on 23rd May, 2016 (build no. 2.16.4). Unable to share NSString object using UIActivityViewController to WhatsApp. I tried to share using below code. But once contact is selected from the list, it shows an alert…
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Android Shared Element Transition: Transforming an ImageView from a circle to a rectangle and back again

I'm trying to do a shared element transition between two activities. The first activity has a circle imageview and the second activity has a rectangular imageview. I just want the circle to transition from the first activity to the second activity…
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WhatsApp HTML Sharing Link for Image

I know you can share messages with and this is working on android and ios now: Share with whatsapp However I'd like to share an image…
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Send messages to Whatsapp number using PHP

I have to send messages to the customer's whatsapp number programatically. What are the pre requirements/needs? Do I need to convert/register my personal number to business account? Is there any API provided by whatsapp for this?
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How to make whatsapp type of animation for opening the menu from toolbar(actionbar)

Description: I recently updated whatsapp and noticed the animation for menu item clicked on toolbar. How to achieve this effect? Are there any opensource projects to achieve this? I have not posted any code because. I have no clue how they are…
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Create line break in WhatsApp message

I have been working on WhatsApp sharing message using: whatsapp-button.js $_u.="Product Name:".$_productName."\n"; $_u.="Sku:".$_productSku."\n";
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Share image and text through Whatsapp or Facebook

I have in my app a share button and i want to share an image and a text at the same time. In GMail it works fine but in WhatsApp, only the image is sent and in Facebook the app crashes. The code i use to share is this: Intent shareIntent = new…
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Callkit loudspeaker bug / how WhatsApp fixed it?

I have an app with Callkit functionality. When I press the loudspeaker button, it will flash and animate to the OFF state (sometimes the speaker is set to LOUD but the icon is still OFF). When I tap on it multiple times... it can be clearly seen…
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