I want to know how to send the message to a particular number when he entered his number.
how the registration process going?
My question is.
1.user enter his mobile number
2.he/she hit the registration button
then i need to send the message(some random code granted by server-php side)to that number.
for this i need web service ?
you can do this alternate way but with out web service you cant do this
Reason : user has use the more than one Device, he given the alternate number of another device , you can't handle
Choice-1
Step-1
inside your app create the randomarc number and when user hit the registration button send the random number with your profile details to backend with the help of webservice.
Step-2
In backend side with the help of SMTP in which random number you already send to backend , the backend developer send the random number to particular mobile number.
Step-3
finally In your own hand your random number number is available , in here no need of webservice ,if user entered the same number move the next step else show the alert thats all.
Choice-2
Step-1
when user hit the registration button send the profile details to backend with the help of webservice and get the random Number on success response.
Step-2
In backend side with the help of SMTP the random number to particular mobile number.
Step-3
finally In your own hand your random number number is available , in here no need of webservice ,if user entered the same number move the next step else show the alert thats all.
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When a user verifies their email address, I want to receive some notification on my client app (iOS/Android).
I need this to ensure that I can unlock additional capabilities for those users whose address is verified. How can I achieve this?
Currently, the only way to do this is to call the reload method on the User object. However, it is not an ideal way of dealing with this situation – after all, I have no idea when they would click on the link. So, performing a reload every time my app becomes active seems excessive.
Maybe there is a trigger which I missed?
Well, what I do is, each app launch I query the user object for its verification status; if it's not verified I send a verif request right there, if not sent before, and if it is and it's the first time, I show some thank you text and move on. I don't think there's an actual notification you can hook with for when the user clicks the link in the email, but alternatively you could build an admin node function server side to check every now and then for verifications and send pushes to the relevant devices.
We use twilio for sending message.
We are not sure how to correlate the response with the message we send. We might send multiple messages to the same Mobile. But, not sure how to correlate response with the messages we sent as the SID's are different.
Is there anyway to relate the response with the message.
Thanks
No, SMS doesn't work like that.
I you send me 5 text messages from your cellphone and then I reply to one you have no way of telling which one I'm replying to.
It's not a Twilio limitation, the SMS standard has no provision to track replies to individual messages
As an afterthought I came up with a hacky solution to this. It's a bit involved so I guess it depends how much you want the functionality.
This works for me using Chrome beta on Android 7.0, YMMV.
Create a php script with the following code and put it on your webserver:
<?php
// increase last digit as necessary to suit string length of your variable
$smsid = substr($_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"],0,1);
// Query database for SMS id, record timestamp of request, optionally return text to be included at the beginning of the SMS reply
$msg= urlencode($databaseResult);
// Remove <?body=$msg> if you just want the link to create a blank reply. Change the phone number to your incoming Twilio number.
header( "Location: sms:+1555444333?body=$msg" )
Now sign up for a URL shortening service which passes URL parameters and create a shortened URL which points to your php script. I used tr.im.
Depending upon your volume of SMS you will have to adjust the length of your variable, but unless you spam people to death I'm going to assume a single character will be enough to identify a unique text.
Using the example tr.im/SMS as your shortened url, you append a variable to the end like so tr.im/SMS?A and put the link in your outgoing SMS. When the user clicks the link your server redirect will open the SMS app on their phone and create a text to your number. If you have included the "?body=$msg" in your php above the new message will have your text at the start.
Personally I probably wouldn't bother adding text, they might delete it before they send it anyway and it's just likely to confuse people. If you log the request variables and timestamps to your database you should be able to tie them together with the phone number as most people will send you their reply within a couple of minutes of the server request. You can also increase the length of your custom URL variable if you struggle to correlate messages. Recycle variables once you have linked a reply etc...
Finally change your Twilio configuration so your outgoing SMS present the company name instead of your Twilio number as the sender. Users cannot directly reply to messages if the sender isn't a number, so they will have to use your link.
Generate a sequential identifier for each message and append it to your link. Save the identifier to your database along with the corresponding message Sid from Twilio and the number you sent it to so you can match them up later.
Append "Click tr.im/SMS?$ to reply" to outgoing SMS, where $ is your variable.
Profit.
I have to create a sign up phone number option in app and I am getting a little confused when it comes to phone number/verification textfield and whole interface controller. Do I have to create this on my own or firebase auth is supporting this screen as it happens in digits?
firebase docs: https://firebase.google.com/docs/auth/ios/phone-auth
You have two solutions, one would be to use their UI:
https://github.com/firebase/FirebaseUI-iOS
The second one would be to create the UI on your own and just call methods mentioned in the link you shared:
verifyPhoneNumber (which returns the code)
credentialWithVerificationID (creates verification object)
signInWithCredential (accepts the verification object and tries to sign-in)
Basically, you want to get the user phone number in order to receive the code(most likely from a textfield). Once you successfully sent the code. transition to a view where the user can enter the code received thru sms than login the user. keep in mind the phone number format has to be something like this +countrycodeStatecodeNumber or +13051239988
Let's say I have the user of my app define a phone number in a setup step of my program, saved in the plist as a number with the key "PhoneNum". Now lets say that I want to have a button in the program which, when pressed, generates a text message that says "Hi! How are you today?" to the phone number saved under "PhoneNum". Is it possible to have this message auto-send without confirmation from the user? If so, can you point me in the right direction?
Yes, it's possible, if you pay for an SMS-sending service. Type “sms sending api” into your favorite search engine.
If you want to send a message through the user's own iMessages or cell phone account, then you cannot do it without confirmation. How to programmatically send SMS on the iPhone?
i am working on an app in which i take a field of mobile number of user after entering mobile number there is a option for verify phone number.
but i don't know the functionality of how to verify a user's phone number within the app using codes.I search for similar type of questions but didn't get the exact solutions.
i am sending a screenshot of my app where i want to put that functionality.
i didn't apply any codes for this
please help
You need a backend that can generate and save codes for each phone number and also send a text message with those codes. So the flow is as follows:
User enters their phone number in the app and presses the "Verify Number" button.
You send a request to your backend with the number provided. In the app, you also displays a text field for user to enter the generated code and a new button like "Check code".
The backend generates a new code (just a random one), stores it to the database (like ID,PhoneNumber,GeneratedCode,DateOfGeneration) and sends a text message with the code to the phone number specified.
When the user receives the message he or she enters the code to the checking input field and presses the "Check" button.
The mobile app sends another request to the backend with the phone number entered earlier and the code entered by the user now.
The backend looks to the database for the "Phone number" - "Code" pair and responds with failure (the code is incorrect, try again) or success (the phone is verified).
Unfortunately, there's no way to access text messages received by user from within an app on iOS devices (unlike Android). The proof link was already provided. So the user has to manually enter the verification code from the message.
Ok I tell the information how was I already did my project in before
Step-1
when user press the Verify Number button
initially I check the phone number is valid or not(means phone number count/length).
second I generate the random number on progrmatically like NSUInteger r = arc4random_uniform(16);
Step-2
send the random number to server along with the vaild phone number , the server send the random number to the particular mobile number using SMTP Server.
Step-3
in your hand you have the random number , so open the UIAlertview for user type the valid random number , if user typed the vaild number show the Next Screen else show the Alert.
To verify any mobile number you can use third party api's which are available for mobile as well as backend server. You can use Twilio Messaging Api. To use this API follow below steps:
Register account on Twilio and get key from account.
Get user's phone number from mobile application.
When user click on the "Verify Number" button, call web-service with the number.
When you'll call the web-service, write a logic to send the random number with the Twilio messaging api to send message to user.
When user get this number through SMS, You can tell user to enter the number and verify it.
Also, there is another api which you can directly integrate into your mobile application. You can find this Sinch Api here.
To verify against your device's phone number, first, you need to get the phone number from your device and then you can compare against. However, after iOS 4, getting phone number of your device is quite impossible. Even if, you do get the device's number using some private api which I am not sure works entirely, there is a huge possibility for Apple to reject your app.
Refer to the following stack overflow discussion-
Programmatically get own phone number in iOS
Just a suggestion: You probably want to look for a work around based on your business goal. For example, rather than checking for device's phone number directly. You can generate a code and send that to the number specified by the user and then enter that code to verify that the user has that device.