I've been digging around on the internet but haven't found anything close to what I'm looking for. Is there any way to load all SMS and iMessage messages into a custom Xamarin IOS app. I don't want to send or receive messages, just view messages that are already on the phone or tablet.Even if there is a Xamarin Forms solution for accessing existing messages, that would work.
There is no way to read SMS messages due to privacy concerns.
you have to Log in to the developers portal and click App Store Review Guidelines.
Nowhere in the guidelines does it specify that you can't access the SMSes. But you can only access then if you use private methods which is not allowed and will get you app rejected.
You can only access data for which Apple supplies a documented API. You can not access file outside of the Sandbox of your App, unless Apple provides an API for it.
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I have a client that created a custom mail server that has the calendars feature and wants the users to be able to sync their calendars in iOS Calendars built-in app.
I do not know how do this using the built-in iOS Calendars App.
I tried to setup in the Apple Development Account an app that use the Apple Push Notifications service but it looks like I have to create an application.
I didn't find any information on web.
Any suggestion where to start?
Thank you.
The "native" protocol for the iOS Calendars app is CalDAV. So what you really want is to have your server implement https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4791
The Calconnect Developer's guide is a good source of information for such a project: https://devguide.calconnect.org/Table-of-Contents
It lists some server side libraries that you probably want to build your implementation on top of: https://devguide.calconnect.org/CalDAV/libraries/
Am using sinch sdk to create a chat application in my app. It is a group chat app without one to one messages. How do I intergrate sharing multimedia data like videos, audio or photos in my app using sinch?
The sinch SDK is really good at 1on1 messaging, to do broadcast messages one to many is not really what the SDK is designed for. I would look at other solutions like Parse and Layer
According to Sinch! the feature of sending media messages has not been released yet, therefore it only means that you are allowed to send text messages only.
Since, i am also working on a chat kinda thing using Sinch, you might wanna know that a group here can have a max. Of 10 people added to it, so keep that in mind while developing.☺
After going through lots of codes provided over the internet, I am still unable to list my SMS app in default Android kitkat version. I don't know whether it can be done by adding permissions to the manifest file or through .java code.
The only thing I want is to, provide me some to-the-point code which I can make a new blank project(ABC), set the code in and that should set my app (ABC) the default sms app.
You can't directly set your app to be default, that would be a nasty security risk. What you can do is to signal to the user that you want your status to be changed and the user will decide:
Intent intent = new Intent(Telephony.Sms.Intents.ACTION_CHANGE_DEFAULT);
intent.putExtra(Telephony.Sms.Intents.EXTRA_PACKAGE_NAME, activity.getPackageName());
activity.startActivity(intent);
However, to be eligible for becoming a default SMS app, you have to implement all of the functionality required from such an app, and this includes the handling of all SMS/MMS related functionality (sending and receiving, notifications, etc). This practically means that you have to rewrite the complete related functionality of the phone, including all receivers, intents, filters and code (and you should be aware that SMS and especially MMS handling is not part of the system, it requires quite a lot of your own code). And this is also the reason why you won't be able to receive an answer that fits into the confines of a SO answer. Way too much code: basically, a complete app.
There is no way out: if you want the user to replace the default SMS app, the user will rightfully expect that whatever app they choose will continue to support all of the functionality. Unless you provide all that, your app will not be listed among the eligible ones and the intent above will not work.
The Android Developers blog of Google has an article titled Getting Your SMS Apps Ready for KitKat that gives you the very first steps in learning what's expected from you in this scenario.
I have been developing in Windows Phone 8 for a couple of months. Currently, I am developing an app that consume some XML to show data. I know how the Toast notification works in WP8, however my doubt is about the following:
In the App I am working on, I would like to implement a kind of Toast Notification when a new data is available (from the source where the XML is extracted). So, is it possible? If so, how to implement it in WP8?
I don't know if you are familiar with the App of dictionary.com. In that App, there is an option to enable the notification for the word of the day. So, every day I recieve a different word in english. When I click in the notification I can see it's meaning.
Any clue, link, post, code or suggestion would be very appreciate
Thanks in advance
Regards!
There can be many ways. My idea will be to use Azure Mobile Services. To explain, let me take same fictitious Dictionary.com example. The WP app will be bound to Azure Mobile Service and it will show all the words fetched from that service. Whenever, I add a new word to this service, using Push Notifications, it will send notification to all my users who've installed Dictionary.com app, stating new word is added.
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I've built an IOS app that has a tab bar and extracts content from a website and displays it.
I need it to be approved in itunes but when i sent it to review they replied
"We've completed the review of your app but cannot post this version to the App Store because it is only a content aggregator and provides a limited set of features and functionality to users"
I've read about it and i noticed that there are a lot of apps just like my app that are used by news sites and they were approved.
My content must be on a remote web server due to security reasons and i have complied with the reachibility protocol that apple requires which means that i monitor if there is network available on the device and warns the user that the content can only appear on connected ipad.
Is there a way that i can add approve my app or must i become a large news site in order to make my app approved?
Add searching or filtering of the content displayed in your app. That should do the trick.