iPhone SMS Url Scheme with Body Content? - iphone

Question

I am looking to pre-fill the SMS body with content given "smsto:555-555-5555:Hello World"
I have done my research and everybody says it cannot be done but I have a QR reader on my phone right now that can take "sms:555-555-5555:Hello world" and pre-fills the content with the correct phone number scanned.
So my question is. How do i do this? it is pretty clear that the URL scheme provided doesn't handle the body. What other methods are out there to pre-fill the body? it can clearly be done with the QuickMark Reader.

Answer 1

You can use the modalViewController for SMS to fill the body of a text.
add the MessageUI framework to your project.
set you viewController as the MFMessageComposeDelegate
Create the modal view and present it:
-(void) showMessageComposerWithText:(NSString*)messageText telNumber:(NSString*)telNumber composeDelegate:(id)delegate
{
MFMessageComposeViewController *controller = [[MFMessageComposeViewController alloc] init];
if([MFMessageComposeViewController canSendText]){
controller.body = messageText;
controller.recipients = [NSArray arrayWithObject:telNumber];
controller.messageComposeDelegate = delegate;
[delegate presentModalViewController:controller animated:YES];
}
}

Answer 2

You can't launch the Messages app with a predefined message according to Apple Documentation.
What you can do is implement the handling yourself and parse the URL like the following:
NSURL *url = /* the url you get from the web (in webview delegate) or after QR Code scan */;
if ([url.scheme isEqualToString:#"sms"]) // is it a sms ?
{
if([MFMessageComposeViewController canSendText]) // can I send text message ?
{
NSArray *parts = [url.absoluteString componentsSeparatedByString:#":"];
NSString *messageText = parts.count == 3 ? [parts objectAtIndex:2] : #"";
NSString *telNumber = parts.count >= 2 ? [parts objectAtIndex:1] : #"";
MFMessageComposeViewController *controller = [[MFMessageComposeViewController alloc] init];
controller.body = messageText;
controller.recipients = [NSArray arrayWithObject:telNumber];
controller.messageComposeDelegate = self;
[self presentViewController:controller animated:YES completion:nil];
[controller release];
}
}
And voilà !