I know there's the app called Ping! for iPhone that allows the sending of SMS messages over your 3G connection, therefore it doesn't count as a text message and it acts pretty much the same as the regular iPhone texting software. Is there any app like this that's available for both iPhones and Blackberrries?
Google Voice allows you to send and receive messages through a web frontend. Because it is just a web page, it should work on any phone with a data plan. More info here: http://www.google.com/googlevoice/about.html
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I'm a Java/Web developer and I don't know anything about iPhone applications.
I did search on the Internet and the following steps are what I think people suggested but I want to confirm.
I would like to know if the following steps will allow me to send a content body to SMS messages when a user clicks on a link on a web page.
Build an iPhone app that takes content body and receiver phone number.
Make the visitors to my webpage download the iPhone app in #1 (using javascript to check if s/he already has it and a custom url scheme to open the iPhone version of "PlayStore")
The visitor installs the app.
Call the iPhone app in #1 using a custom URL scheme, from a link on a web page. This link contains the phone number of the receiver and a content body
The iPhone app in #1 then opens the native SMS app in iPhone, this time with a body.
Is this
1. possible ?
2. the right way to do ?
EDIT :
To make things clearer, what I need are...
It shouldn't be the web server that sends the SMS. The client who gave us the job does not want to pay for that. The client wants each visitor send their own SMS and pay for it.
I made a mistake. The phone number of the receiver should be empty. Only the content body is pre populated. So if I clicked on the "send SMS to my friends" link(on a webpage), it opens the native SMS application.(at least, this is how it works on android devices currently). And then the visitor would type in or select the phone number of the receiver from the contacts on his device.
No, you cannot open the SMS app with a message body. The only way to send it is by using MFMessageComposeViewController (iOS 5.0+) as shown in this page. If you need to support earlier versions, you are out of luck.
I'm not sure that Javascript can "check" that the device can run a url scheme either (I'm almost certain it can't check what apps are installed), but I'm not an expert at that kind of stuff.
As far as you are launching your application with some data using Custom URL Schemes this might help you calling your app with some parameters
http://www.idev101.com/code/Objective-C/custom_url_schemes.html
For step #5 its not possible
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No.
No. The "right" version would be to send the SMS from your webserver, using something like NowSMS.
Is there a way to simulate push notifications by pushing data to mobile safari? Here are 2 scenarios.
I make a web app via phonegap and dont want to use APNS but rather make a web-socket connection and push data to the device myself. On the device end is there a "alert" function I can call to emulate a pop up when a user is not in the application?
Lets throw web app out the window. Is there a way I can do this in native mobile safari? Im not talking about a plain old JS alert window that would only come up if the user was in the app, but be able to do so with it backgrounded.
You cannot run background tasks with mobile safari so for #2 you can't do true push notifications or alerts. However you can send a user an SMS if you have the user's phone number. This can have a hyperlink to a part of your web site (which can contain some sort of payload). You can use a service such as Twilio to help you send SMS'es. However this costs money. APNS does not.
For scenario #1 I'm assuming you're talking about a native app using a phonegap solution. In this case when the app is backgrounded you cannot access any UI at all and wake up the app and show a UIAlert. In fact unless an app is registered for location updates or background music, the app is effectively not going to respond after a set period of time (it only can "finish" certain operations it had started before). So the websocket solution will only be effective if the user has the app opened.
You could register a local notification that runs at some predetermined time which will show an alert. But that is not being pushed from the server so its probably not what you want.
APNS is your best solution for scenario #1. Its not that hard to implement and its pretty inexpensive. Check out urban airship if you want to avoid building out your own server-side components for it.
I need to get the sms details from iPhone, that is count of sent and received messages and all messages that are stored in iPhone device. How can I implement them programmatically?
I am not sure if the current SDK supports functions to access SMS information as there is currently no API to get access to the user's SMS/MMS library.. I guess you can only do it for Jailbroken devices
i would like to display ads from my server in a uiwebview placed inside my application for which i will be sending some data from the phone to my server but what i have heard sending user data to your server in application will lead to the application being rejected?? is it true?? is there any other way to implement own custom ads from my server into the application??
That's not true, as long as your server aren't belong to some company in the mobile OS business.
is there any code on how to implement the sms scheme in iPhone apps. in addition, implementing this sms scheme will allow my apps interact with the sms apps ma like doing subscription of advertisement or services?
The iPhone SDK does any SMS functionality, either for accessing received SMSes, or sending SMSes. If you need this functionality you should file a bug with Apple.
Using UIWebView embed a html like below
Launch Text Application
New SMS Message
Apple URL Scheme TextLinks
https://developer.apple.com/library/content/featuredarticles/iPhoneURLScheme_Reference/SMSLinks/SMSLinks.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40008054-SW1