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Android

Posted by Jordan Peterson
Jordan Peterson
5,134 Points

How to add SMS and MMS to Ribbit app?

I want to make the Ribbit app more like a texting app. How can I add SMS and MMS in this application?

Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points

The Android Telephony API has an SMSManager and an MMSManager.

What sort of thing are you thinking of implementing here? Rather than using Parse.com to exchange data between users, have a user's phone number as a property of each user (in Parse) with the option to use that to send the SMS/MMS? Do you want to maintain the ability to have the message 'time-out' and vanish?

It's an interesting idea ... I'e never tried using SMS/MMS programatically.

Jordan Peterson
Jordan Peterson
5,134 Points

Hi Steve,

I wanted to make an app similar to the app textPlus. I want to have a user have an option to message each other through their account on my app or through a users phone number. I haven't decided yet if I want the message to time out and vanish yet.

Jordan.

Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points

I had a quick look around. It seems the Android documentation isn't great - it covers the classes but there's no walk-through of the API.

However, this on StackOverflow seems to cover a lot of the things you'll need to implement.

Steve.