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.
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My application ask for location and notification permissions.
When user launch the app for first time the location request displays and after notification request displays.
Is there any way to request this better? Maybe an a list like in Android or anything better than I have right now?
You should generally only ask for permissions or check for authorisation when it is required by the app, and not when the user launches the app for the first time. For example, notification permissions could be requested at launch, but location permissions should be requested only when the data is required in your app.
As far as I know, there is no Android-like way to request for permissions.
Edit: You may want to check out third party libraries like ISHPermissionKit and JLPermissions, which provide a more unified approach to asking for user permissions, which is what you might be looking for. But ultimately, I still believe that asking for permission only when it is required is still the way to go.
When your app uses push notification, it will be the first to prompt to user for notification access. Notification Access Pop-Up will prompt at the very beginning of App Launch.
You can ask for location access permission on demand using - CLLocationManager requestWhenInUseAuthorization or AlwaysInUseAuthorization.
If you need to access Camera, Photo Library Access just add privacy usage on your info.plist and iOS will ask for permission accordingly on demand.
My iOS app gives the user the option to login using their Facebook account. I would like to be able to see the list with all the friends and invite the ones selected to use the app. The problem is that using the app request window, the friends get a notification that is displayed somewhere in the App Center, rather than in the Notifications panel. Unfortunately, this sort of notification is very subtle and might not be seen only after a long time.
From obvious reasons, I cannot fetch the emails of friends as this would be a great alternative.
Do you know if there is a way to send a Facebook Message or some other sort of notification that is more 'visible' to the receiver? Thanks!
I'm not sure if I completely understand your problem. If it's the problem that I think you're having, it sounds like you need to fill out more information on your Facebook App's configuration page.
From what I remember when I had this same issue, you need to have a Canvas URL set in your Facebook App's configuration page. Even if your app is not going to use Canvas, you need to have that part filled out in order for your friends to receive the app's notification jewel on Facebook.
I'm looking to access the SMS inbox from within an app. This is what I currently understand -
The standard SDK does NOT allow access to the sms db due to privacy reasons
iphone app reading sms
and How to programmatically send SMS on the iPhone?
The app must not be running in the background due to privacy reasons
An application cannot access another application's data as each app runs within its sandbox
It's possible to access the contact list though (Whatsapp, e.g.)
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/ContactData/Conceptual/AddressBookProgrammingGuideforiPhone/100-Introduction/chapter_1_section_1.html
It is / maybe possible to do this on a jailbroken iPhone
How to get inbox all SMS on iphonse sdk?
My questions are (in the context of a non-jailbreak phone) -
Is it possible to access messages from the SMS inbox AFTER explicit user permission in the app?
Is it possible to ask the user to grant access to SMS messages from select users (listed), from within the app
Is there some workaround to getting my app to read these messages from select users, with user permission from within the app?
Thanks a ton!
Max
Your understanding of items 1-5 is correct.
To answer your questions:
No. There is no API for asking the user for permission to access their SMS, and no public API/approved methods to access the SMS.
No.
No.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.
The iOS SDK class MFMailComposeViewController can be used to let the user compose an email message.
What I'd like to do, is for the iOS app to send an email in the background, with no user interaction. Is this at all possible/allowed in the iOS SDK?
Nope. There isn't any API available to do this. You'd need to roll your own SMTP client and have the user enter credentials into your application. On top of that Apple may not approve this.
Unfortunately, I don't think Apple would ever allow this because (for example) then you could just get everyone's email address by auto-sending mail to yourself. :(
I actually wanted to implement something like this for the express purpose of alerting me when a critical error happens on an app in the app market.
Best solution would be to create an API (just ping a php file or something), and have it send the relative alert message to your email).
I need a script that will add my phone with Twitter for All latest notification.
I found this page Twitter but i need to create script for my own application.
I goggled but i didn't get any solution For this.Please Help me to find this answer.
Thanks a lot in advance.
First Edit
This is a twitter's new feature Send notification to Phone. Actually I want to create an app that will allow users to register there phone with twitter via my application. Ie I need a script to implement send notification to phone.
The question that others are asking you Pankaj is what platform is your application being written for. You keep saying you want a "script" to do this, but what kind of script?
Giving us more insight to what your application is (a console application written in C#, or an ASP.NET web application) would lend more detail and raise the chances of someone being able to help you. :)
Regardless of your app's platform though, you're probably going to need to look into the Twitter API for setting this up. This is the normal method to interact with Twitter from 3rd party applications. So all the suggestions above, specifically the list of API's available, is probably what you're looking for.
Hey, can you give some more information? What kind of Phone are you developing for?
Maybe that helps solving your Problem.
If you are just searching for a way connecting your Phone to Twitter, here is the Twitter FAQ for Phone connecting:
http://support.twitter.com/articles/14014-twitter-phone-faqs
Maybe it helps, or give you more keywords for your search.
I don't believe there's a way to get or set the notification phone number using the API, however if a phone is already setup on the profile you want to configure, you can do the following to get notification from all user friends.
The user will need to authorize your application to access her account. This flow uses OAuth, and begins here:
http://api.twitter.com/oauth/request_token
Once the user has granted your app access, and your application has all the required OAuth credentials, turn on notifications using account/update_delivery_device:
http://api.twitter.com/1/account/update_delivery_device.json?device=sms
Next, fetch all the IDs for your user's friends using the friends/ids API call. Be sure to study the documentation; this call uses cursors, so you will have to manage those if the user has over 5,000 friends. Store these IDs for use in the next step. Here's an example call:
http://api.twitter.com/1/friends/ids.json?cursor=-1
Once you have all of the friend IDs, you can call notifications/follow repeatedly to enable notifications on your mobile device whenever your friend makes an update:
http://api.twitter.com/1/notifications/follow.xml?user_id=12345
This approach will burn one API call for each user that you enable notifications for; there's no way currently to manage notifications en masse.