I am building a system in iOS on ipad which records appointments. Once a appointment is scheduled, a message needs to be sent to the number given while scheduling. Is there a way i can send a SMS through ipad?
It's not possible to send an SMS while remaining in the app on iOS.
You could allow the user to send an SMS by tapping an element which would bring up the messages app and allow you to send one there, but not in the app itself.
You could however, use your own solution in Obc-C (or written in another language such as PHP) which sends the messages through a message gateway.
An example would be this:
http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/php/how-to-send-text-messages-with-php/
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Ok I know there are many possible duplicate questions but none answers my question.
According to Apple's App Store Review Guidelines (if it is the official one) I can only find 4 rules stating anything about messaging
5.5 Apps that use Push Notifications to send unsolicited messages, or for the purpose of phishing or spamming will be rejected
6.5 Apps that use Game Center service to send unsolicited messages, or for the purpose of phishing or spamming will be rejected
21.2 The collection of donations must be done via a web site in Safari or an SMS
22.6 Apps that enable anonymous or prank phone calls or SMS/MMS messaging will be rejected
According to me these rules does not restrict auto sending a message completely, if we have user's concern of sending the SMS.
Now I want to know is there's anyway that I can auto send SMS on a scheduled time when the app is suspended, like we can fire UILocalNotification?
If Yes then how and if No then why?
I also don't want to use any third party API or some server side programming. I want to send a simple SMS from phone.
No you can not send an e-mail or SMS via the Apple provided SDK without the user sending the messages.
You could setup your own mail server of SMS server to provide a solution to this, but you will not be able to do it with the Apple provided SDK.
The reason why this is implement this way is to protect the user, since you could just send 100 SMS to some kind of server number and thus make the user unaware of the costs.
Or you app could start spamming user with email by sending email without the users consent.
programmatically send SMS on the iPhone with out show MFMessageComposeViewController? It's possible? b/c I want to konw when's my phone send sms. I don't want my phone auto sending SMS.
If it's possible, how to know? How to catch that event?
In theory (and assuming the phone is not jailbroken), you cannot send an SMS without user intervention. If sending SMS messages via the API, the user will see the message-compose view controller.
That said, I suppose an app could "bypass" this by sending an HTML request to a third-party SMS gateway (in other words, the iphone is not actually sending the text message, but an external server is).
It's possible, but not using the SMS capability provided by the phone. An app author wanting to send SMS without the usual UI would have to purchase capacity from some third party provider (search for 'SMS provider' to find many such providers). Messages sent that way would cost the app developer money, which is as powerful a disincentive as you can find. They also wouldn't be identified with you.
This application support send a scheduled sms in background mode! How to they do that?
What do you think about this their info:
In order to send out the scheduled message:
This app must be running on your iPhone, either in the background or in the foreground;
Your iPhone must not be in the airplane mode;
Your iPhone must have carrier's signal at the scheduled time;
NOTES:
If you schedule a message with a large number of recipients, please check with your carrier for the maximum number of recipients allowed per message. If you exceed the maximum number allowed, your message may be blocked by your carrier.
Your iPhone must be powered on at the scheduled time so that the message can be sent out;
If you reboot your iPhone, or turn it off/on, remember to restart this app as soon as possible so that the timer can still be active.
Some results from testing...confirms this app is sending normal SMS WITHOUT user interaction!
WLAN ON + GSM OFF (no reception) => the app does NOT send SMS, even after reception is back no SMS gets send. In the phone's messages log it tells "failed sending SMS"
WLAN OFF + GSM ON => the app sends SMS without user interaction (I checked my bill, and in fact a SMS got sent through the provider! - no data traffic to a server!)
Also, by the way when the SMS is received the sender's SMS number is displayed correctly. I know one could do this through a SMS server - but in fact a REAL SMS got sent through the provider! There was no data traffic, no other cost than my providers SMS charge, and on the past activities it explicitly showed this SMS!
So somehow this app sends a real SMS without user confirmation.
Probably there is a way to use the direct SMS library without Apple's review team finding out? Anyway I know for sure, that Apple rejects apps that use this library (if they find out!)
Your best bet is to setup an intermediate server on the internet that uses an online SMS sending service, and send the SMSs via that route if you need complete automation. (ie, your program on the iPhone sends a UDP packet to your server, which sends the real SMS)
When you use Viber for the first time, it sends you an activaion code by SMS. I am working on the same action. After doing some research, (like "iPhone In-App SMS MFMessageComposeViewController Auto-Send" ), I have come to a conclusion but I'm not very sure it is correct. So I think some experts know the answer.
In iOS 4, we can use MFMessageComposeViewController to send SMS. However, the user will still see the SMS page and he/she needs to click 'send' button. In Viber, the user doesn't have to—he/she just gets a SMS without seeing the message page after he/she enters his/her own phone number. And all articles I read tell me iOS doesn't allow us to send SMS without user intervention.
I guess Viber has set up its own intermediate server that sends SMS. Is that correct?
Yeah, there are a number of web services that’ll send SMSs for you—Google ‘em. That’s most likely what they’re using; it’s definitely not the phone’s built-in SMS functionality.
I am new to iPhone application development. In the application that I am developing for iPhone there is a module which sends the sms without knowing to the user to my sms server and gets the response and displays the result. Is there any way to send and receive sms message in app?
Thanks in advance.
You should use data instead of SMS.
SMS are not a way to send information between a client and a server, but Internet is. And by using data, you also get a much more reliable transfer protocol (SMS aren't).
You shouldn't send SMS without the agreement of your users, because it can become really costly. Imagine you have a user on vacation in another country, and think that your app is using wifi, while it is using SMS. This user will be really mad when he will get is cellphone bill.
So even if you can do it, I think you shouldn't. And if you really need to do this, be sure that it is really clear to the user that your app is going to send SMS from his phone (with the charge of a normal SMS).
This is not possible with the iPhone SDK as it stands. It's probably not possible with any mobile platform without the user knowing about it as it's an obvious security hole.
I am also working on GPS-based application and I can have the device stop sending SMS back to the user every time the user send an SMS command. I think as long as the SMS is sent, it should be fine.
If the user wants to see the status of the device, then I might have to establish communication between my server and the device via TCP/UDP and have the iPhone app "parse" the information and display the status. Perhaps the best way is to have the server respond to the iPhone app saying "The device received your SMS command" and display it on the app so that the user knows his/her SMS were sent.
But yes, if we could get the location via SMS, then I could send those coordinates to the Google Maps app in the iPhone itself and it would display it for you.
I am the author of an App on Android which does this, called ImHerePlus. Check it out and see if it helps.