iPhone Programming: Send a text message? Access contact list?

Question

I'm still new to the API and I wanted to ask:

• Can you send a text message programmatically?
• Can you access the users contact list programmatically?

I'm thinking no. I haven't seen anything about text messaging in the API, and I figure the sandboxing that the iPhone does keeps you away from the phones contact list.

Thanks everyone.

Answer 1

1) I'm afraid you can't send SMS with the iPhone SDK although you can make a link to send an SMS like so: <a href="sms:408-555-5555">408 555 5555</a>

2) You can access the contact list with the Address Book UI framework

Answer 2

one way round the sms/mms problem is to use an external aggregator then you can utilise http between a server and the iphone to send sms obviously there is a cost involved this way to the developer

Answer 3

external aggregator then you can utilise http

You mean my app would use http://MySite.com?from=&amp;to=&amp;msg=

And then my server-side code would send the actual text-message?

Has anyone come up with a more "direct" method?

Answer 4

Yes You can build an app to send SMS. All u need a server API, which u gonna call through ur code, to send sms. I am saying this bcoz i am currently working on it.

As soon as i m done with my app,i am gonna share it. http://shishir.com?from=shishir&amp;to=shishir&amp;message=hi&amp;sandbox=false&amp;username=user&amp;password=pass

u hv to pass values through URL.

will go in deep very soon.

regards shishir