Is it possible to have an app send a text message/image to multiple email and sms accounts by pressing a single button? I understand that in the background the emails and sms messages are sent consecutively but I'm trying to avoid multiple view controllers being presented to the user. I have seen "iOS doesn't allow you to send e-mails or texts without user interaction" but the user would be pressing a button saying it was sending the message to list of email addresses and sms numbers.
I've been reviewing the materials on the Social Framework and MessageUI.Framework and searching forums but cannot find the information I'm looking for. Is there another framework I should be using?
As an extension Can you use the same button to send the same message to multiple accounts such as a facebook and twitter account?
You can use FacebookSDK for Facebook and (for example) FSHTwitterEngine for Twitter and create your own custom composer and sender. Both this libraries has sources on GitHub, so you can do what you want. But it not so easy way.
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I'm building a small email app (on iOS first) for internal team use only. We also have a Slack team that I'm rolling out to the whole group (about 250 people) around the same time I'm launching the app.
I'm going to have a lot of older and tech-phobic users, so I'm trying to make things as easy as possible for them. Since I'm writing the email app, I figure to making on-boarding even easier I can:
Check if they've got the Slack app installed (via the canOpenURL method)
Send them to the App Store to download if they don't
Open the Slack app for them if they do
Look for the magic login email
Automatically open the URL from the email.
All that is great, but it would be fantastic if I could trigger sending that email automatically and don't even need to send them to manually put in the team URL and their email. Anybody know a way?
CLARIFICATION:
One big reason I want to do this that I didn't make very clear is that when the Slack app sends the email it prompts you to go to your email app to receive your login link, but since iOS doesn't allow changing the default email app, it will send them to the wrong one for my user's purposes.
Sure. If you already have the emails of your target group you can generate the invitation mails programmatically with a small script.
You will need to use the undocumented API method users.admin.invite for that.
I'm using Firebase phone authentication in my app. I am wondering how I can customize the text message sent to the user.
For example, I would like the SMS the user receives to say:
"Welcome to XXXX App. Your verification code is 123456."
No , you cannot customize the SMS send by Firebase Phone Authentication.
Go to Firebase console you will find this
It shows no option to customize , only you can change language.
with google framework, Google/AppInvite
How can we add the list of emails for GINInvite object to send the invitation? I'm not getting any way to invite the list of emails I'm getting from my webApi
Is it possible to prefill users to send app invitation?
How?
Thank you
Looking at the documentation for App Invites, there's absolutely no exposure of any e-mail or user information going in or out. It looks like Google is being privacy-minded here and would prefer that users have total control as to how invites get addressed.
I want to get list of my friends from Facebook who are not users of my app, and be able to invite them.
Using FBWebDialogs I can pick users, but I'm wondering how foursquare did it?
Screenshot:
There is option of frictionless requests.
On Facebook developer site they mentioned in section of Invites and Requests
We touched on a scenario where users exchange requests back and forth. If this scenario is typical in your game, it can be a bad user experience to force them through the request dialog every time they want to send a request. The solution for this is frictionless requests.
Frictionless requests let users send requests to friends from an app without having to click on a pop-up confirmation dialog. When sending a request to a friend, a user can authorize the app to send subsequent requests to the same friend without another dialog. This streamlines the process of sharing with friends.
For more reference see Facebook Invites and Requests
You are asking two questions here:
How to invite Facebook friends without web dialogs?
Unfortunately, the web dialogs you are referring to are the best way to send invites to friends. There was a time when we had to resort to ugly hacks just to get this functionality in applications. Facebook added this functionality to iOS SDK after developers created bug reports and were literally behind them.
Get a list of friends who are not using the app and invite them
Foursquare IMO is not using the requests API. What they do is, whenever somebody links their Facebook account to their Foursquare account they make a note of the users friends who are using/not using the app. This is possible if the user grants the app permissions.
Then in the invite screen, they simply build a UITableView with list of friends who they think are not using the app. When you tap Invite they will just send an email invitation and not the Facebook request you are referring to.
I think FourSquare syncing the user's friend list(friend ids) to its own server.. Then after they are checking it to create the custom interface like the screen shot you shared.
Maybe I didn't get the question right, but from what I know after you tap the invite button on Foursquare the Facebook invite dialog (apprequest) will pop up.
In general this dialog will let you select friends if you didn't specify any friends ids before presenting it, or show you the selected friends like in Foursquare example.
There is an API to get your FB friends, so it's possible for your server to check witch of then already has the app...
I've been researching this for a while and the main solution I have found is frictionless requests, as Rahul Patel noted. You can do a direct request to the graph API and see who has your app installed.
From there you could fairly easily implement any sort of filtering. For example, using the Friend Picker UI Control and implementing the method friendPickerViewController:shouldIncludeUser: and checking against a list of facebook ids who are not on the app that you cache somewhere else in your application and actively update it (for example in a simple core data model that is updated when appDidFinishLaunching), returning no if the user is not displayed. This would only allow users to select individuals who are not on the app, and then you could send a request to them under the hood with frictionless requests.
I do think that it is not a great idea to spam people, however, without at least allowing them to check the names of their friends, or see who they are.
Suppose I have an email address that only receives a specific type of email, i.e. an automatically generated receipt email from a transaction.
I would like to build an iOS app to receive the email text from this email address and parse according to a predefined format and display the results. Is it possible to do this without dealing with the email server directly from the app?
Meaning can I for instance piggyback off the native mail client (assuming it is set up to receive pushed email sent to the email address). I tried looking through Apple's docs for iOS but could not find anything useful. Anyone know of something?
3rd party apps have no way to integrate with the Mail app or to make use of any configured mail account the user has setup on the device.
However, you can write an app that can access external email accounts if the user provides all of the usual email account details. The App Store has several 3rd party mail apps that serve as replacements for Apple's Mail app.
If your app is written to work with a specific email account, and not one entered by the user of the app, then you can hardcode all of the account details in the app.
Your app is basically a run of the mill email client. You just have to know how to access IMAP or POP3 accounts, retrieve the emails, and process them as needed.
Again, there is no way your app can intercept or make use of any emails accessed by any email accounts the user has setup for use with the standard Mail app.
There are at least two aspects to your question:
How do I get an email to open in my iOS app?
Put the data in an attachment and see this link
What format can I use in an email attachment to transport persistent
objects?
I've had decent results with NSKeyedArchive as an interchange format. There are lots of other choices, depending on what generates the receipts attachments.
Post a followup with your choices. Good luck!