I'm currently playing with the XMPPFramework for iOS and I had the idea to let users make their own profile, based on vCards. I've made a screen where they can enter some information, such as date of birth, first/last name etc. When they are done they press the 'save' button.
What I would like to do, is to letting know everyone that's subscribed to this user that his vCard changed but I'm not sure how to do this. I've already tried to send a vcard-temp:x:update stanza but the message didn't arrive on my other device I'm testing with.
Does anyone know how I could do this and which method I could use?
You cannot know about vCard changes,
You can only know about photo updates via XEP: 0153
This xep uses the presence to send the photo there.
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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 have an idea to use a telegram bot for food ordering from a smartphone. So, you have a menu, prices, there is a payment gateway. This part seems clear to me.
I was wondering if there any way to get a geolocation information inside telegram? So smartphone owner location is sent automatically.
The alternative I see are:
writing address thru telegram (too much work and probably restaurant has to call back);
Install a small Android/iOS app just to send a location to the service. Kinda feels awkward, but a little better that first option.
Maybe you can see better ways, perhaps telegram already got some related functionality?
Thank you!
On some step (don't do it too early) you can send a button with the request_location field set to true.
When the user presses that button, Telegram asks the user if he wants to share his location with the bot.
The user then sends a location. Note that the user could also spoof the location.
I'm developing an app that creates a simple document with basic information created by the app. It won't contain any personal information, but it will contain data created and requested by the user. I want the user to be able to send this to themselves via email. I would also like to add the option for the user to have this file (which updates daily) to be able to send to them automatically every week/month, so they won't have to think about it. The user can set the intervals themselves.
Is this possible? The user will set up this option themselves from a menu, so it's not like they won't know it's happening. Every automatic mail will also contain information on how to turn the option back off again.
Is this possible and is it allowed by Apple?
Thanks for your reply
It is not possible from within the app. A user has to explicitly send the email through the MFMailComposeViewController.
If you want this functionality, you should build a backend for your app.
To clarify, if you want to use the users configured accounts; i.e. the account they use with Mail, then no you cannot do this automatically. The other answers rely on the fact a user enters their POP/IMAP settings, which personally I would never do.
You could use an email service as mandril or mailgun, to send emails "from your app".
Take a look at this: https://github.com/rackerlabs/objc-mailgun
There's a library called MailCore that's incredibly powerful. You can use it to send mail in the background of your app without needing to present the built in mail composer view
https://github.com/MailCore/mailcore2
I have inherited an app that, when certain conditions are met, will email data to a known server. The way the previous version worked is that the MFMailComposeViewController would slide up and the user could enter add'l info and then hit send. What we really want to do is send an email programmatically, transparently to the user (i.e. no visual representation unless it fails).
Is this possible, or does Apple not like apps to do this?
Thanks for any help.
IOS doesn't support to mail in background.
These are some questions asked previously on same topic.
1.Send Email in Background from iOS
2.How to send an email to a receipent in background in iOS5?
this might be useful to you.
http://iosameer.blogspot.ca/2013/01/sending-e-mail-in-background-from-ios_25.html
one more thing you can do is lock the fields in mail composer view.
Locking the Fields in MFMailComposeViewController
I would like to place an email in the iPhones email outbox, without showing the compose window to the user, so that he can not mess with the data that I want to send. Is this possible?
Thanks,
Timo
No - if you want to send an email using the user's email account you must allow them to modify the message contents: that's part of Apple's message framework. To be honest, it's a fairly sensible feature...I don't think many people would want an app that could just send things out without alerting the user or allowing them to modify it.
If you want to send a message and stop the user from messing with your data, just add an attachment and check for the attachment on the backend (assuming that because you want to send specific data)