my original title was How to customize TTMessageController for SMS transmission?. I changed this now because I look for any possible solution and not only those with TTMessageController.
Well, I am working on an simple application in xcode4. The user should be able to send SMS from different SMS gateways.
The background logic is quite simple because everything is managed by executing some http requests on an rest api.
The hard thing for me now is to setup the UI and that is where I need help because I am new to iOS development. This is how I want it to be:
http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/3159/bhrfe.png
There should be a recipient picker to either do autosearch on contacts or to directly pick a contact from the contact list. Beside I want only one recipient. And there should be a text area.
I also want to have a label somewhere at the bottom to show the current char number.
Since I did not find those UI elements in xcode4 library I searched for something similar and I found the TTMessageController which gives me the view you see in the picture.
However plus button does not work and I am not sure how to extend all this to do what I want.
I appreciate any idea on this.
For the + Button you can use the address book UI:
// This Code is taken from Apple's sample code QuickContacts
#import <AddressBookUI/AddressBookUI.h>
-(void)showPeoplePickerController {
ABPeoplePickerNavigationController *picker = [[ABPeoplePickerNavigationController alloc] init];
picker.peoplePickerDelegate = self;
// Display only a person's phone, email, and birthdate
NSArray *displayedItems = [NSArray arrayWithObject:[NSNumber numberWithInt:kABPersonPhoneProperty]];
picker.displayedProperties = displayedItems;
// Show the picker
[self presentModalViewController:picker animated:YES];
[picker release];
}
The <ABPeoplePickerNavigationControllerDelegate> delegate include this methods:
– peoplePickerNavigationController:shouldContinueAfterSelectingPerson:
– peoplePickerNavigationController:shouldContinueAfterSelectingPerson:property:identifier:
– peoplePickerNavigationControllerDidCancel:
After selecting a person you can save his/her number in an array and in the text field (e.g. comma separated)
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For the question if it will be approved here is the guideline:
https://developer.apple.com/appstore/resources/approval/guidelines.html
22.6 Apps that enable anonymous or prank phone calls or SMS/MMS messaging will be rejected
You can't use TTMessageController to send sms. The only possible way to send sms is to use MFMessageComposeViewController. Here's a tutorial on how to use it: http://blog.mugunthkumar.com/coding/iphone-tutorial-how-to-send-in-app-sms/
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Currently i am working in iPhone application, Using MFMessageComposeViewController to develop this application and its working fine.
But i want, message compose screen don't show on the screen, then the Message send programmatically ,
How to do this? it is possible? please help me
I tried this:
MFMessageComposeViewController *controller = [[[MFMessageComposeViewController alloc] init] autorelease];
if([MFMessageComposeViewController canSendText])
{
controller.body = #"Hi";
controller.recipients = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:#"12345678", #"87654321", nil];
controller.messageComposeDelegate = self;
[self presentModalViewController:controller animated:YES];
}
I've tried to do this once but but it wont be accepted by app store. Apple wont let you send message/email without user knowledge about it.
You can use a sms:[target phone number] URL to open the SMS application, but there are no indications on how to prefill a SMS body with text (see this post on Apple Developer Forums).
You can't use the Message Framework to send a message without the user knowing about it. One common solution is to send the message details to a web service running on your server and send the message from the server. As long as you're not trying to be sneaky, I don't think there's anything wrong with doing that.
Is it possible to send sms using phonegap in iphone??If yes can anybody suggest me sample code or tutorials to do so???
Is it possible to find out user's phone number using phonegap in iphone??If yes can anybody suggest me sample code or tutorials to do so???
If you want to send sms via phone first you should create a plugin(see phonegap website to see how its done) then in plugin code(it should be native code do it like this :
You must add MessageUI.framework to your Xcode project and include a #import <MessageUI/MessageUI.h> in your header file.
Add these delegates to your header file MFMessageComposeViewControllerDelegate & UINavigationControllerDelegate.
In your IBAction method declare instance of MFMessageComposeViewController say messageInstance to check whether your device can send text use [MFMessageComposeViewController canSendText] in if condition, it'll return Yes/No in the if condition do these:
MFMessageComposeViewController *messageInstance = [[[MFMessageComposeViewController alloc] init] autorelease];
// set body for your messageInstance
messageInstance.body = #"Hello from Shah";
// then decide the recipients for the message as:
messageInstance.recipients = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:#"12345678", #"87654321", nil];
//Set a delegate to your messageInstance as:
messageInstance.messageComposeDelegate = self;
// Then present the messageViewController
[self messageInstance animated:YES];
How to add Event in iPhone Calendar. I just want to add events in iPhone calendar using my application and wants to set pushnotification for perticuler event. Please help me out on this. Thank you.
To create an Event programmatically, you would use EventKit, more specifically the provided EKEventEditViewController. See the Apple documentation for an explanation and sample code.
In iOS 4.0+, you would also be able to access that controller without writing any EventKit code. To do that, use a UITextView configured with dataDetectorTypes = UIDataDetectorTypeCalendarEvent. The UITextView will automatically convert strings representing formatted dates, days of the week, etc. - to clickable URLs that handle the creation of events.
Please refer to the Apple iOS documentation for the rest of your question. If there is anything specific that doesn't work in your case, please post some code, show us what you have tried already, etc.
you can use this code
EKEventStore *es = [[EKEventStore alloc] init];
EKEventEditViewController *controller = [[EKEventEditViewController alloc] init];
controller.eventStore = es;
controller.editViewDelegate = self;
[self presentModalViewController:controller animated:YES];
[controller release];
Has anyone every embeded the iPhone's Email program inside your own App?
Let me try and simplify that. Tap Tap Revenge allows you to "Challenge A Friend". When you choose to do so they open the standard iPhone email program (if they mimicked it, it looks damn good), within the application with pre-populated data. All you have to do is select a friend from your contacts and press send. You never leave the Tap Tap Revenge App.
Any ideas how this is done?
You need to include the MessageUI.framework into your project, and inside your header file you need to set the delegate:
#import <MessageUI/MessageUI.h>
#interface RootViewController : UIViewController <MFMailComposeViewControllerDelegate> {
MFMailComposeViewController *email;
}
#property (nonatomic, retain) MFMailComposeViewController *email;
Once you do that, you have a few delegate methods inside your implementation file you need to include (You should check to see the result, but I am trying to keep as little code as needed):
#synthesize email;
- (void) mailComposeController:(MFMailComposeViewController *)controller didFinishWithResult:(MFMailComposeResult)result error:(NSError *)error {
[email dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];
}
Wherever you want to use this, you need to initialize and set it up like this:
email = [[MFMailComposeViewController alloc] init];
email.mailComposeDelegate = self;
// Subject
[email setSubject:#"Testing"];
// Optional Attachments
NSData *artwork = UIImagePNGRepresentation([UIImage imageNamed:#"albumart.png"]);
[email addAttachmentData:artwork mimeType:#"image/png" fileName:#"albumart.png"];
// Body
[email setMessageBody:#"This is the body"];
// Present it
[self presentModalViewController:email animated:YES];
Further to Garett's great response, should you get the warning:
'MFMailComposeViewController' may not respond to '-setMessageBody:'
add isHTML: so the complete line reads like:
[mail setMessageBody:#"This is the body" isHTML:NO];
There is two answers for that. For applications that should support iPhone OS prior 3.0 the only way to go is to build a custom message composer. Or you may want to have a look at the component built by Joe Hewitt who wrote the Facebook iPhone app.
http://github.com/joehewitt/three20/blob/master/src/Three20/TTMessageController.h
With iPhone SDK 3.0 you are able to use the Mail message composer UI straight out if the box using the MessageUI.framework as explained above.
messagecomposer is the way to go! mails and sms inside the app, run from iOS 3.1. need sdk 4
I am new to iphone development, i have created sms application using "Text Links(sms:) and i have created the action sheets and the buttons for email, sms. On clicking sms it navigates to the another view(UIView controller) and i wrote a code for SMS.And i faced some problem ,its not removed the view properly, it doesnt goes to the previous webview properly,(Action sheets loaded in webview)
Here my code and explanation,
I have created the custom send button programmatically for sending the sms.
I am getting phone numbers in a textfield and stores it to one string(phone) and i display the article title on the label, it worked dynamically.
now i want to share the article title through sms. and i have one problem, (ie)if i click send button it should go to the previous view(webview) but it display another view.. so i want to go to the previous page properly ,when i clicked the send button.
And i also want to display the address book(Eg,default address book in the device) in my sms view page.Please guide me.
-(void) sendbtnclk
{
self.String = txtfield.text;
NSString *phone = String;
NSString *arttitle = articleTitle;
NSString *sms = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"sms:%# %#",phone,arttitle];
[[UIApplication sharedApplication]openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:sms]];
[self.view removeFromSuperview];
}
thanks,
please help me out.
I think that when you use the openURL: method, the Text app is launched on the phone and thus the current app is dismissed.
Here is the relevant documentation.