Send SMS iPhone - iphone

Question

I was trying to send SMS from within my app. I wrote this piece of code but it seems not to work.
No crash, no error log, simply nothing happen (of course I tried to log canSendText and the result is 1).
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
messageComposer = [[MFMessageComposeViewController alloc] init];
if ([MFMessageComposeViewController canSendText]) {
[messageComposer setBody:#"Messaggio generato da SMSTest"];
[messageComposer setRecipients:[NSArray arrayWithObject:#"3333333333"]];
[messageComposer setDelegate:self];
[self presentModalViewController:messageComposer animated:YES];
}
}
Can anyone explain me what I'm doing wrong?

Answer 1

The problem is that presentModalViewController does not work in viewDidLoad yet as the view is loaded but might not even be on screen yet. If you put your code in viewWillAppear:animated, this should work.
Edit: As per Saphrosit's comment: viewDidAppear: is an even better place to do this.

Answer 2

I use this successfully:
MFMessageComposeViewController *controller = [[MFMessageComposeViewController alloc] init];
controller.messageComposeDelegate = self;
controller.modalPresentationStyle = UIModalPresentationFullScreen;
[self presentModalViewController:controller animated:YES];
Note that it's messageComposeDelegate, not 'delegate' as you do.
Tim

Answer 3

When i try the code on simulator i get an UIAlert saying text messaging is not available, because simulator can´t send messages. Have you checked that your header file is a delegate of MFMessageComposeViewControllerDelegate ?
YourClassName : UIViewController <MFMessageComposeViewControllerDelegate>

Answer 4

//try this ... it will run ..
MFMessageComposeViewController *controller = [[[MFMessageComposeViewController alloc] init] autorelease];
if([MFMessageComposeViewController canSendText])
{
controller.body = #"Hello from Kartik";
controller.recipients = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:#"12356478", nil];
controller.messageComposeDelegate = self;
[self presentModalViewController:controller animated:YES];
}