URL in iPhone SMS content.

Question

Hello,

I'm developing an iPhone application where SMS native application should open when the user clicks the button.

This is working fine and I am also able to copy the content to clipboard when the user clicks on the button.

But I want to provide a URL in the SMS content which I am copying so that the user click on the URL to open it in the browser.

Can anyone suggest me how to provide clickable URL in SMS content?

Answer 1

The APIs for copying rich text (HTML) content to the clipboard are private for the time being. Even if they weren't, SMS messages do not support them--I think MMS messages do, but on some carriers they're more expensive.

Answer 2

If I'm understanding your question correctly, you can simply encode the URL in the SMS content - the iPhone SMS application will display it as a clickable/tappable URL. This is, of course, assuming that you simply want to send a clickable link. As rpetrich mentions, there is no way to send rich content directly via SMS.

Answer 3

Thanks for your response. encoding the url in the content you mean, i should put just www.google.com or something similar to html anchor tag Google