I'm looking for information about how binary SMS are implemented on iPhone.
Particularly I would like to know what you need to do (if it is possible) in an iOS application to
listen to a specific SMS port and
then be notified of a dedicated incoming binary SMS.
Of course, I'm looking for a solution based on official (public) APIs.
There is no offcial API to access SMS database of iphone without jailbreaking of it.
You can't, you can only send a SMS via de official API. You can't read the SMS inbox let alone listen for incoming SMSes.
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I am looking for sending SMS through my iPhone app.
There is a condition , i am not using the default composer of iPhone, i have designed my own design.
There is a text box and send button, so sms should go to the selected respective phone no of phone book.
I have done that with default compose, but i want to go with customize sms composer.
Please help in this case.
Thanks,
Gopal
If you want to use iOS' built-in SMS API, I'm afraid you must also use the built-in message composer (it's part of the package deal). That said, you could always use a third-party SMS gateway, and rather than send the SMS directly from the phone, you could send it via HTTP to the gateway.
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.
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.
I don't want my app to probe the nether parts of the iPhone... just use the modem to send a simple SMS message. Is this a deal-breaker with Apple? Why?
I'm considering a workaround where outgoing SMS are routed to a URL I set up to bounce the message on to the intended recipient. Do you think this is a feasible route to consider?
How to programmatically send SMS on the iPhone?
basically, you can open the sms app but you'll have to route through an (internet-based) sms gateway if you don't want to leave your app to send it.
SMS may be limited by the phone operator. This is a no-go if the user doesn't know a SMS is being sent.
Besides, interacting with something low-level like a device seems to be something Apple wouldn't like.
I don't know enough about phone protocols to be of any other help, though.
I need to write a .NET application that listens to a SMS message , and then react to it.
I assume i need a SMS gateway to interface between my application and the sender of the SMS.
How could i implement this . Would the listening program need to be a web service or something else ?
Please give me your ideas.
Thanks,
Chak
You will need an SMS gateway.
Alot of SMS gateways allow you to send replies from SMS to email. Then all you need to do is retrieve the message via POP and do something.
SharpWebMail is open source. Should be samples of how to do that in there somewhere.
http://csharp-source.net/open-source/web-mail
Hope that helps.
One easy way to do it (if it fits your architecture) is to just simply use a mobile phone and have code on it that intercepts the message and the forwards it to your application.
If you want to use .net, you can use a Windows Mobile phone and use the MessageInterceptor class with .NET Compact Framework. Then, when you have your message, use whatever method you want to forward it to your app (sockets, serial ports, web services, ...).
You first need to find an SMS provider, and then ask them how they integrate. There is no standard way to do this, and everyone use their own approach.
You do at least need something that will receive the SMS for you. That might be a GSM modem or some form of SMS gateway. How you implement the technical part of “receiving an SMS” is specific to the tool you use. You can talk to a GSM modem via serial port (or TCP), SMS gateways often use SMPP or HTTP to transfer SMS.