Is there any chance to send sms only to one specified phone number?
I know that it must be executed only with native text editor (SmsComposeTask or ChatMessageManager), but is it possible to block addition of another recipients phone numbers?
Thanks in advance
The answer is basically NO.
Once you open the SMSComposeTask then basically your APP does not have any control over it.
The user can change recipients or even the text.
If you do want this then : one way to overcome this would be to send the message from the server by connecting to a web service. So the SMS goes from the server and not from the phone.
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I'm applying from Twilio to use their WhatsApp API service they are providing to build a WhatsApp auto-reply bot. But the problem here is that they want us to use the phone number they provide to us which we need to buy from them.
I tried using the URL 'https://api.whatsapp.com/send?phone=15551234567' but it just redirects to a page to send a message which I need to click 'Send' in order for it to submit our message. Besides that, we need to be able to trigger the application that a message is received from a recipient so we still need to access the API.
So how exactly is it I want to build a Whatsapp Auto Reply service to the public if Twilio provides it's own phone number only to reply. I want to reply using phone numbers that my clients register with me which is their own phone numbers.
As we know Whatsapp API is not open for public but how other Whatsapp Auto Reply apps are able to use our phone number to auto-reply to our recipients?
Would love some feedback or solutions from StackOverflow community. Thanks.
Twilio developer evangelist here.
Currently the Twilio documentation on using numbers on WhatsApp says:
Currently, we are unable to enable WhatsApp on non-Twilio numbers; support for this is coming soon and we will update these docs once available.
So this is just a current limitation and will be changed in the future.
Suppose I have a form that needs to be filled by the user including phone number.
After the data is entered, it will be stored on server side.
Now what I want is to send each of the contact stored on server, some of the details filled by him like some text or image. And this things would be sent automatically on his phone as SMS and also on Whatsapp if he has installed in his mobile.
Thanks in advance.
I am in a project, from where I am facing a problem, because the user wants to sent a short message to his clients smart phone about their UserID and Password by using internet.
If you want to send email then its easily available but for text messages you have to get an API for sms sending. In many countries sms sending api's are available for free. A paid service is telephoney.
Assuming these phones are connected to a wireless provider, many phones can receive texts through email.
Here is AT&T's page on how to send these messages [Link]
There is also the issue of security though. I have no clue whether or not this would be a safe way to transmit someones ID and Password information.
I am currently trying to figure out how to send an email behind the scenes. Basically, I don't want an MFMailComposeViewController popping up making me press the send button. All the fields are pre-populated so there is no need to type anything out. Is this possible? Will I have to use another framework?
Thanks
You'll have to use your own mail server (or ask the user for credentials for their own, which you probably don't want to do). The iOS SDK intentionally doesn't allow you to send an email on behalf of the user with no user interface; making the user press "Send" is the whole idea so that they are never surprised.
Apps that push email out automatically either do so from their own servers, or integrate with a server framework like Mailgun, or Parse, or etc, that offer this feature.
I've done that in one of my apps using Mailgun, which is a hosted email web service.
I'd like to realize an application allowing to catch incoming and outcoming sms each time an sms is recived or sent and send it to another mobile or to an email address. So should I touch the mobile substrate (if yes HOW?? I didn't found anything on how to developp this kind of application)? how to catch the send/recive sms event?
Thank you
This isn't possible in a non jail broken iOS device. Just think of the implications...
On a broken device you will need to monitor /var/mobile/Library/SMS/sms.db for changes and then query it to find the messages.