I'm using a MFMessageComposeViewController instance in my app. The user clicks a button and it is taken to MFMessageComposeViewController. The question I am asking myself is..do I need to ask user for the permission to access to text messages on phone? I really don't need that data stored in Messages App, but my app does provide a link to it.
You must not ask user for permision because you can't access nothing from messages. You just open a new message sheet and you can pre-fill it with a sender, a message, and a few images. Message does not send automatically, only user can send iy
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I am on RoR and I would like to know if anyone can explain how I can create a system which displays a button for sending a message invitation to an other user.
If I havn't send invitation, then the button should be "Send invitation", else the button should be "Remove invitation".
I have created a messaging system that allows communication between all users of my website.I also have created an notification system which help them send notification to users.
I have a MVC application for my "send_invitation" system but not sure how to create a method which will send notification to other user. And also to ensure that when the user accepts the request, they should be allowed to exchange messages. I want a clarification on the above process.
I have searched and have not been able to find a definitive answer. I know that it is not possible to get the phone number of the current caller using Objective-C, but I don't need the number.
I want to send a text message to the current caller. Does iOS have a method to allow you to send a text message from an app to the current caller.
The scenario is this:
End user calls another user
They put the person they called on speaker phone and navigate to my app
The app has a button that allows them to share information via SMS to the person they are talking to while they are talking to them without having to do anything more than click a button (the user doesn't have to type the other person's phone number manually to send the SMS).
Sukhdeep is correct.iOS will never allow you to perform Messaging without user involvement.
The answer is No.
Apple will never allow you this.
I'm writing an app where I need to be able to send texts in the background. I saw this very comprehensive answer to a similar question that explains how to send text messages through an interface with the user and the various limitations of sending messages programmatically, but it didn't really address another possibility: is it possible for the user to grant permission to my app to send messages in the background similar to how the user must grant permission to an app to access the user's photos? For example, upon starting up the app for the first time, a prompt appears asking the user for permission to send text messages. If the user grants permission, then the app can send messages in the background. Is that possible?
The answer to this question is that you can't. There are some jailbreak apps that accomplish this but they require just that, a jailbreak (and private APIs). There is no App Store allowed way to do this.
Here's my scenario. As part of my app when someone is sent a message it sends an alert to the phone. If they click on the alert I want to open up the specific message they were alerted to. I have a view message controller that will show the specific message. Here are my questions:
What is the best way to handle a notification while the app is open? I get the alert in the appDelegate, should I show an alert box that's triggered from there and open the correct controller if they choose to view it? This seems like code that doesn't belong in the appDelegate, but I don't know how that would otherwise happen.
For the login, this is a very similar question. When they are logged in it logs them into the server, and they stay logged in for a period of time. When the app loads I want to fire off a check on the server to see if their login has timed out. If it has I want to push them to the login screen of the app. Would this also happen in the app delegate?
My third question is how to best handle getting the phone id. I have the method set up in my app delegate where I get the ID when they accept the push notifications. My plan is to check and see if they are logged in, and if they are check to see if I already have their id saved to the server. If not send it up to save. Is that the best way to do this?
Yes, you would want to show a notification (UIAlertView is perfect for this), so the app doesn't suddenly change views, or jump around when a notification comes in. You'll want the user to be in control of whether they want to view the content related to the notification, just like they can choose to ignore notifications from apps anyway.
Yes, or switch the view to whatever view controller handled the login (you could do this modally). Be sure to let the user know why they're seeing the login view: "Login is required to view [NOTIFICATION]" or something like that. But it depends on the rest of the flow of your app.*
Not entirely sure which ID you're referring to? You might want to store a unique token in the app which you communicate to your server. This token is generated on the first login, for example which enables you to match up the user's login with the token. A UUID might work, or you can roll your own.
*A note on your auto-logout, why do you have this? Most apps stay logged in at all times, and let's the user control when they want to logout (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. - unless it's a banking app or PayPal). Alternatively, you can let the user add a custom four-digit login code like the Dropbox app for example.
I have created an iphone app that allows the user to send an email using MFMailComposeViewController. I know that when the email is sent a copy is kelp in the "Sent" emails of the email client. What I wanted to do was also save that data/information to a text file on the iphone (as a log file). I can't find how to access the email information (recipient, body, etc) so as to input into the text file. Can this be done?
Thanks in advance for your help
No it can't be done in that you can't access the user's emails.
Your app can log when you present a MFMailComposeViewController and what data your app filled it in with before it was presented to the user. But you won't know if they changed it.
You dont have access to the email text in MFMailComposer class. What you can do is, create a view to capture to, cc, subject and message and then launch MFMailComposer delegate and prepopulate all the captured data. The user still has to submit the mail and could change the text all together. The captured data can then be stored within the app.