iPhone - Send SMS message from within an app

I'm also interested in this. I'm looking for a way to either send an SMS through an API call or invoke the SMS application with a url using the [[UIApplication sharedApplication] openUrl: url] function. Unfortunately, the documentation doesn't seem to offer a way to do either.

I am also looking for the same. I also want to send email through an API call or want to invoke the inbuilt Email application. Is it possible using UIApplication class. If you got any solution then please reply me or mail me on ashish.bhatt@indianic.com.

Thanks.

UIApplication openURL:\"sms:0041 34 344 34 34\"

de-design, can you elaborate more on how that "sms:" url works? Specifically, is there a way to specify content for the sms message, similar to how mailto: links work?

I've figured out that you can specify a phone # for the message, using "sms:/123456789" (to place 123456789 in the To: field), but I have been unable to set the message body.

Any help you or others have will be very appreciated.

Has anyone found a solution to this yet? I have the 'tel' version working, but many phones, including Nokias, allow for sms:

Could it be that it just doesn't work in the simulator?

so no one knows of a way to put content in the sms message?

I honestly be surprised if Apple provided a mechanism for autonomously sending an SMS message.

Launching the SMS application ready to send to a given number is one thing, but having the body populated (and presumably sent) would be a BIG problem. Two things immediately jump to mind:

1. Privacy; this would allow an application to send a message to an outside entity not necessarily approved of by the user. This entity would then know that user's phone number whether or not the user wanted that entity to know their phone number.

2. Since SMS is a for-pay service for many people, allowing this would be tantamount to allowing a third party to control my billing.

rob.

Judging by the number of views to the original question, it seems like a lot of people are looking for a way to send a SMS from their application. I don't buy the whole argument about security since any application could grab some data from your device it post-it-away over http and you wouldn't know about it. On the Blackberry you can easily send and receive sms messages from your own code. Of course your application is also signed with your developer signature similar to the iPhone.

The issue is not security, but privacy.

Yes any application could connect to WiFi and send data, however... that does not provide the phone number phone number to your cell phone (and possibly result in a charge to you based on your wireless plan), whereas sending an SMS message does.

Thus far, Apple seems to have taken Privacy very seriously, example: the they pulled an application from the app store that sent, without the user's consent, the contents of their address book.

Like I said, I could see them allowing access to SMS, but the actual sending of the SMS would have to be up to the user and not over autonomous control of an arbitrary third party application.

rob.

Did anyone ever figure this one out? I would think that use of the SMS capabilities would be viewed by Apple as a key capability.

Any pointers appreciated!

Ernie