It looks like a tidy application, and I'm assuming it's functional - good job.<p>You're probably going to need to deal with the WhatsApp legal team very soon. I recall several HN threads discussing various shutdowns of 3rd party WhatsApp-based services. One example which came from a quick search was: <a href="https://github.com/venomous0x/WhatsAPI" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/venomous0x/WhatsAPI</a><p>Good luck!
So this is indeed a very simple wrapper around the web.whatsapp.com. Just an <iframe>. I wondered how they reverse engineered the security and worked around whatsapp's SSO permissions. They didn't, you can just as well open web.whatsapp.com and realize that this still doesn't make it work with an iPhone.<p>Now all they did is make themselves a target for legal action, because they're using the whatsapp trademark on the domain name and spent a load of time doing basically nothing.
Is it a wrapper around <a href="https://web.whatsapp.com/" rel="nofollow">https://web.whatsapp.com/</a> ?<p>If yes, what's the advantage over opening a browser tab ?
Hey, everyone, I'm the dev. First of all, thanks to @halfimmortal for posting this, I've just stumbled upon it. It's my first time on the front page ^^<p>I didn't realise using the official logo, their colours and the name was so bad. I emailed WhatsApp to discuss it and I hope we'll come to an agreement. Whatever we get to, I'm willing to rename the app and use another domain to keep the app alive.<p>The app is just a wrapper around web.whatsapp.com which runs on top of NW.js. What I did is make the notifications work, I added custom themes (will be available in the next release) and some minor tweaks to improve integration with the OS.<p>The app doesn't work on iOS due to some operating system limitations. I think WhatsApp is working on it.<p>Thanks for the support and the naming idea.
There's another OS X only client called ChitChat (formerly WhatsMac) that I've been using for a few weeks which is very cool:<p><a href="https://github.com/stonesam92/ChitChat" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/stonesam92/ChitChat</a>
Good job! I see that you also made a wrapper for FB Messenger. If you could do the same for Hangouts it would be awesome. Might be a bit tricky because Hangouts doesn't really have a standalone webapp right now (you might wrap the chrome extension though).
I saw also the fb messenger for desktop - absolutely great!<p>One suggestion though, I definitely prefer 1 single app to catch all my IMs, like adium on Mac... I'd definitely prefer to have a single app for both whatsapp and messenger, or even better 2 plugins for adium.
I've just tried it, it works well. Barring the delay on opening, and a small delay on resizing, it seems like a native app on Elementary OS.<p>Credit to WhatsApp for building an excellent webapp, and credit to the author for wrapping everything up to tie in with the desktop.<p>I would say there's definitely a benefit to have it as a separate hybrid app, rather than just loading the web-page. You can launch it directly, set it to run at start-up if you want, have a meaningful dock icon, notifications, etc.<p>Clearly, in general you'd prefer a native application, but this is definitely useful.
Cool, I don't need to run Chrome for this.<p>BTW, you should release some generic binary tarballs, those debs work just fine on CentOS/Fedora if you unpack them.<p>No notifications/tray icon in MATE though.
I have a question. How would one go about reverse engineering an API for something like WhatsApp? What are some of the tools you can use to discover how their API works?
There is a plugin for Pidgin
<a href="https://github.com/davidgfnet/whatsapp-purple/" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/davidgfnet/whatsapp-purple/</a>
It has some interface similarities with the Telegram app. (Not sure who was first!)<p><a href="http://i.imgur.com/fTQjgqa.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/fTQjgqa.jpg</a>
This is just another wrapper for Whatsapp's Web application. Hence it has the same limitations, especially this one: It does not work with an iPhone.
If only there would be a messenger with native iOs Phone/Tablet, Android Phone/Tablet, Windows, OSX and Linux apps... oh wait there is, it is called Telegram. And you don't even need your phone to use it.