I'm using MFMessageComposeViewController for in-app SMS. The problem is that when I have an NSString with whitespace to assign to body, it will remove all whitespaces. Below code demonstrates the issue. Interesting thing is that it works when I try to copy the same text to clipboard and paste into the sms app.
- (void)sendSMS {
MFMessageComposeViewController *controller = [[MFMessageComposeViewController alloc] init];
if([MFMessageComposeViewController canSendText])
{
[controller setBody:#" aaa aaa"];
controller.recipients = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:nil];
controller.messageComposeDelegate = self;
[self presentModalViewController:controller animated:YES];
}
[controller release];
}
//it becomes "aaa aaa" on the SMS message box when controller shows up.
Does anybody have any idea how to solve this problem?
Thanks in advance!
This seems to still be a problem 5/2012. However you can force the whitespace with  . Not the best option, but it works. The MFMailComposeController will also drop leading whitespace on the body and the same method works.
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Here is the code that I have for my cell of my UITableView:
forKeys:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:#"Title", #"Cells", #"Footer Title", nil]] autorelease];
[tableView1CellData addObject:sectionContainer_3];
NSMutableArray *cells_4 = [[[NSMutableArray alloc] init] autorelease];
NSDictionary *cellContainer_4_1 = [[[NSDictionary alloc] initWithObjects:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:#"Support", #"", #"", #"", #"", #"1", nil]
What would I have to add so that when the cell is tapped, it happened up a MailView in the app (preferably) but I understand that the easiest way is to just use the HTML "mailto" ? I'm brand new to Objective-C, but I am able to edit C and C++, so I think that I can work in any answer. Thanks in advance!
P.S. Posting this from iPhone (just thought of asking question) so sorry if the code isn't highlighted, but i tried to space it out.
Check out the documentation on MFMailComposeViewController. You can present a mail compose view, user will fill it out and send the mail.
1.Add the Message UI Framework
2.You should have registered a delegate for the UITableView. See a UITableView tutorial if needed.
3.Implement the following method:
- (void)tableView: (UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath: (NSIndexPath *) indexPath {
...
}
4.Inside the method use MFMailComposeViewController to send the email. Example usage:
MFMailComposeViewController* controller = [[MFMailComposeViewController alloc] init];
controller.mailComposeDelegate = self;
[controller setSubject:#"My Subject"];
[controller setMessageBody:#"Hello there." isHTML:NO];
if (controller) [self presentModalViewController:controller animated:YES];
[controller release];
Read More: How can I send mail from an iPhone application
UITableView/UITableViewCell tap event response?
And yes, you can use the mailto: URL thing... but #jer's answer is the one I would prefer to do myself, as a developer.
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:#"mailto://info#iosdevelopertips.com"]];
(details for the above can be found at http://iosdevelopertips.com/cocoa/launching-other-apps-within-an-iphone-application.html)
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?
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.
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
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>
//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];
}
I have a method like this:
void sendSMS{
if ([MFMessageComposeViewController canSendText]) {
MFMessageComposeViewController *picker = [[MFMessageComposeViewController alloc] init];
picker.recipients = [NSArray arrayWithObject:#"0933660805"];
[picker setBody:#"Message body"];
picker.messageComposeDelegate = self;
[self.navigationController presentModalViewController:picker animated:YES];
//[picker release];
return;
}
}
Message composer open but recipients and message body are empty (image below). Anybody know how can i fix it :(
Go for this ones and then check may be it will resolve your issue
void sendSMS
{
if ([MFMessageComposeViewController canSendText]) {
MFMessageComposeViewController *picker = [[MFMessageComposeViewController alloc] init];
picker.messageComposeDelegate = self;
NSString *bodyString = nil;
NSMutableArray *toRecipients = [[NSMutableArray alloc]init];
[toRecipients addObject:#"0933660805"];
[picker setRecipients:(NSArray *)toRecipients];
[toRecipients release];
bodyString = [NSString stringWithFormat: #"Message body"];
[picker setBody:bodyString];
[self presentModalViewController:picker animated:YES];
[picker release];
}
Also take a look at this tutorial http://blog.mugunthkumar.com/coding/iphone-tutorial-how-to-send-in-app-sms/
Good Luck!
OK I answered my own question. Now I want no one else to have to go thru this. I was calling this method from just an NSObject. It was a delegate to MFMessageComposeViewControllerDelegate but that made no difference. I had to move this method to my MainViewController, then it worked.
iOS 10.0 is here and this is still a problem for me. So, I have fashioned a workaround.
According to previous comments that initializing the MFMessageComposeViewController in the viewDidLoad() won't solve the problem (which I can attest to), unless the view controller gets presented, it won't be cached. So, the hack here is to make a window, set its root view controller, present a dummy MFMessageComposeViewController instance and immediately dismiss it, somewhere before your actual need (like in viewDidLoad())
Here is a sample code I'm using (Swift 3.0 - Let me know if you were interested in Obj-C counterpart):
let window = UIWindow()
let vc = UIViewController()
window.rootViewController = vc
let messageCompose = MFMessageComposeViewController()
vc.present(messageCompose, animated: false) { [weak messageCompose] in
messageCompose?.dismiss(animated: false, completion: nil)
}
The thing here is that if you present it in the currently active window's view controller chain, it will mess up your UI by showing and hiding the keyboard abruptly (no matter how you try to hide the controller's view and what not), due to the message body selection on present. But adding it to a whole new window which is not in view cycle, it will be correctly initialized and there will be no trace of such transaction on view. Plus, you won't boggle the memory too much this way (because the scope of the controller should be minimal now) and you can initialize your actual MFMessageComposeViewController any time you want and get it much faster now. If your application heavily relies on MFMessageComposeViewController (which I doubt) you can move this to your AppDelegate to be ready anywhere around your app's life cycle.
Cheers,
M.
Try this
- (void)sendSMS
{
if ([MFMessageComposeViewController canSendText]) {
MFMessageComposeViewController *picker = [[MFMessageComposeViewController alloc] init];
picker.messageComposeDelegate = self;
NSString *bodyString = nil;
NSArray *toRecipients = [NSArray arrayWithObject:#"NUMBER HERE"];
[picker setRecipients:toRecipients];
[self presentModalViewController:picker animated:YES];
[picker release];
}
In my case (on iPhone 3g s) the problem was when I called [self.navigationController pushViewController... ], when i tried call [self presentModalViewController ...] it worked, I dont know why, but it is. Try it.
set the MFMessageComposeViewController *picker = [[MFMessageComposeViewController alloc] init];
before if ([MFMessageComposeViewController canSendText]) {...}
Try this.
Try this.
- (void)forwardPromo
{
MFMessageComposeViewController *composeViewController = [[MFMessageComposeViewController alloc] init];
composeViewController.body = #"Message body";
composeViewController.recipients = [NSArray arrayWithObject:#"0933660805"];
composeViewController.messageComposeDelegate = self;
[self presentViewController:composeViewController animated:YES completion:nil];
}
You should have a "nil" at the end of the array:
composeViewController.recipients = [NSArray arrayWithObject:#"0933660805", nil];
I am writing code to send sms programatically
Program crashes at second last line.
MFMessageComposeViewController *picker = [[MFMessageComposeViewController alloc] init];
picker.messageComposeDelegate = self;
picker.recipients = [NSArray arrayWithObject:#"123456789"]; // your recipient number or self for testing
picker.body = #"test from OS4";
[self presentModalViewController:picker animated:YES];
[picker release];
I assume it's safe to say that it implements
UIViewController <MFMessageComposeViewControllerDelegate>
In which case, I would recommend going back to http://iphonesdkdev.blogspot.com/2010/04/mfmessagecomposeviewcontroller-sample.html, copying their example and progressing from there.
I'm launching a MFMailComposeViewController like so:
ShareViewController *shareView = [[ShareViewController alloc] initWithSubject:subject body:body footer:footer];
shareView.modalTransitionStyle = UIModalTransitionStyleCrossDissolve;
shareView.modalPresentationStyle = UIModalPresentationFormSheet;
[self presentModalViewController:shareView animated:YES];
The init looks this:
- (id)initWithSubject:(NSString *)subject body:(NSString *)body footer:(NSString *)footer{
[super init];
self.navigationBar.barStyle = UIBarStyleBlack;
self.mailComposeDelegate = self;
[self setSubject:subject];
body = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"%# %#", body, footer];
[self setMessageBody:body isHTML:YES];
return self;
}
The email window appears, and I can move the cursor around the body of the email. But I am not able to bring up a keyboard, or move the cursor to the To:, CC:, or Subject: fields at all. No idea what's going on. This was previously working but I've recently made several UI changes. 'Cancel' dismisses the modal as expected. 'Send' is not enabled since there's no recipient in the To: field.
Any ideas?
Turns out I had forgotten to call [super viewDidAppear] when I overrode viewDidAppear.