Monday, December 15, 2014

‘Whatsapp working on webapp’ – NU.nl

This is evident from the source code of the latest beta version of the Android app, as discovered Android World . The source code lines describe a ‘web_session’, which indicates that Whatsapp will also support web sessions.

There are different images and icons found in the source code, such as a small Chrome icon and an image in which a smartphone and laptop can be seen together. Whatsapp via the app, users can view their web sessions and terminate it.

Whatsapp users would web.whatsapp.com through the domain, which is screened at this time, may enter their phone number. The site then displays a QR code that can be Whatsapp are scanned with the app, then the session is approved and may be logged in.



Telegram

Pavel Durov, founder of the Whatsapp competitor Telegram, said this week during an interview with TechCrunch that Whatsapp has tried to take over one of its developers. This developer was working on Web-Telegram.

Telegram include popularized by offering web and desktop apps.



Desktop

In addition, Whatsapp-CEO Jan Koum has expressed itself only in 2013 about a potential desktop version. “Which we probably are not going to make,” said Koum at the time.

A web version which is now being talked about is not the same as a desktop application, which must be installed on a computer.

Whatsapp has not yet responded to the news. It remains unclear when the webapp appears. The source code of the app shows that the web version is still in development

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By: NU.nl/Daniël Verlaan

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