Creating Sticker Packs for WhatsApp in iOS
Just a few days ago, at the time of writing this post, WhatsApp released the possibility of sending stickers in our chats. To be able to do it, you just need to update your app to the latest version. But what’s much more interesting for us is that, is that it is possible to create third-party sticker packs. It is done in a very particular way, I’m sure this is just the start and that it will improve as it gets bigger and bigger, so I wanted to write about my experience in modifying iMonstickers to support its use in WhatsApp.
Just to clarify, you can create the sticker packs for both iOS and Android, which is already a huge improvement over Messages, where there’s no way of sending your beautiful stickers to your friends, that for some reason, are using Android phones 😜. But we are going to focus on the process for iOS. For Android is actually very similar.
The first thing you may be wondering is: How does it work? Does WhatsApp have a stickers store that you can submit to? Can you charge for them?
The approach is actually quite interesting, though it adds a bit of friction to the user. They don’t have a store or a way to search for third-party sticker…
