Encoding SMS messages in Android

Question

Hi All!

My problem is that I want to send an SMS message of a certain Class and with a certain encoding. (Class 0 and 7-bit encoding).

When checking the Android.Telephony.SmsManager and SmsMessage there is not so much you can do. The SmsManager offers the two functions SendTextMessage and SendDataMessage. The first one works fine if you simply wants to send a normal SMS to somebody. So I guess that the SendDataMessage is the function that I somehow needs to use. However I can not figure out how to use it. And there seems to be no examples on the web (that I can find) of anyone using this function.

Does anyone know anything that would help me? :-) Either how to send a Class0 7-bit encoded sms, or how to use the SendDataMessage function properly.

best regards Thomas Hermansson

Answer 1

I am also interested in an answer to this... this functionality is widely available on symbian s60... but android which you'd think would be the most open and easy to mod tend to lack simple features such as this.. not to mention other problems im having with wifi proxy setup and .p12 certificates.

Luke