I'm looking for any way to send/read a vCard via SMS in my app. I've read a lot of articles, web-pages, forums etc. There is still not even a clue how to do that.
Here is transaction.
User selects some specific contact
App generates a vCard for it
User types a number to send vCard to
App sends SMS with that vCard(?)
Addressee recievs SMS with vCard and asked to browse contact/add to
contacts(?)
Here is some posts in stackoverflow with the same issue: this and this. Still nothing helpful...
I've found this nice library to work .vcf files(both write and read). But is there any way to send it to another phone (and read properly of course)? Just send this as a string maybe?
HERE is a nice stack post about handling data from recieved SMS sent by SMSManager.sendDataMessage() method
Please help! I'll be happy to get any clue, useful library or a proof that it's impossible on Android. If there is no way via SMS can you give me advice how to do that via MMS?
What's interesting, that there is a lot of apps with that functionality, so I guess this is possible.
Thanks anyone who responds. Have a good day.
You don't have to read MMS from code, when you have system for that.
To send MMS with vCard, you need to attach .vcf file to it.
Here is an answer how to do that.
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Im building an app that helps prevent patients from going missing or helps locate them ... im able to get co_ordinates and send them to the defined number via sms. because of time constraints im looking for help narrowing down what i should look into before attacking the next section. The question is there there a better way to go about sharing data between two apps on different devices rather than sms.
any tips on extracting information from messages would also be great ty.
I think push notifications may be the way forward for you, check out this write up from Google about how to implement them:
https://developers.google.com/android/c2dm/
I have searched google and have not found the answer I was looking for only bits and pieces. I would like to create an application where a user could text a SMS shortcode number with a certain string of text "example: IN" which would then run a command on a server if it matches a specific keyword. Basically it would update a database and then send a message back to the user. My questions are how do I obtain a SMS Short code number? How do I link that with a server? What programming language is the most efficient and effective for accomplishing the task? I have a little bit of programming experience in "HTML, JavaScript, PHP and C" and am willing to learn more languages if required. If someone could answer these questions for me I would be grateful.
Twilio offers this along with their other telephony services. I haven't actually used their SMS service, but I've heard good things about the company in general.
For less than 1/100 of the price of a dedicated shortcode, you can start with a "shared shortcode" provider like TextMarks.
TextMarks owns the "41411" shortcode, and you can lease keywords on it for use with your own applications.
You configure a callback URL, and any incoming SMS messages starting with your keyword get routed to your own web server as HTTP requests. If you respond with anything, your message even goes back to the user as another SMS response.
More info:
TextMarks SMS auto-responder API overview
[Disclosure: I built a large portion of the TextMarks API! Ask me anything.]
You will need a SMS server which is not very common. So you should look for providers like SMSMode or Essendex. But you'll have to pay to receive and send SMS.
I have found few examples in stackoverflow for integrating MMS with my android application. But nothing worked fine.
If some one can send me a good link for MMS integration in my application, i shall be very much thankful.
Looking forward for your response.
Thank you.
For reading mms: How to Read MMS Data in Android?
For writing mms try using this example: http://maximbogatov.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/mms-in-android-part-2-working-with-mms-storage/
It adds the mmsdata to the tables, but there is still an issue with the message not showing in the native message application.
Hopefully this will get you started on the right track anyway.
I'm new to android programming. just to improve my skills, i started with some project in my mind.
when app starts, it will show a button. on click of it, it will allow me to select a contact from the address book. then i want to retrieve all the sms sent to that contact (if they are stored in sms outbox). Is it possible. Can some one guide me. If there is some tutorial on these topics, can you let me know the URL or source code?
Thanks in Advance.
First, it is not possible. There are many SMS clients for Android, many of whom do not expose an "sms outbox".
Second, even if you limit yourself to the SMS application that ships with "Google Experience" phones, the "sms outbox" is not part of the SDK.
If you wish to create an application that sends SMS messages, there is the SmsManager class you can use.
As folks mentioned, the sms outbox is undocument. If you want to access it, you sholud have some skills first.
trace android source code
learn how to use content provider (learn how to create a content provider is better)
what's the authority
know does the URI matched
how to manipulate the Cursor
write some sample code to test
You can find the SMS/MMS content provider here:
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/providers/TelephonyProvider
I'm looking at replacing the default Android text messing app with my own, but I don't exactly know how to send SMS and MMS text messages. I would like to at least get it so that I can send SMS first, since I would assume that sending MMS would be much more difficult.
So, what exactly should be done when sending messages of these types? Any code examples that would be easy enough to understand?
Thanks!
Check the android-smspopup source code.
So, what exactly should be done when sending messages of these types? Any code examples that
would be easy enough to understand?
Use SmsManager. Here is a sample project showing the basics of sending an SMS, either through the default client or by using SmsManager. I do not believe there is a public API to send MMS, though.