I'm trying to create an application that keeps a count on the number of text messages a user has sent from his/her Windows Phone 7 device.
I'm assuming that to do this, I need to have an app running in the background, which I now believe is possible with the SDK v7.1.
However, I can't seem to figure out how to get my app to react to an outgoing message. I.e. how do I increment a counter when a message is sent? Is there a particular event that's triggered that I can set up a handler for?
There is no way to be notified that an outgoing text message has been sent - Windows Phone is much more locked down than (say) Android.
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I have a client who sends about 5000 SMS messages each month. They are currently doing this from an iPhone, by actually typing the message in to the phone. (I think the messages are quite repetitive, and are often addressed to groups).
The reason that they are not using an online message gateway is purely the cost. We can use a gateway here in Australia (such as Amazon SMS) for about 7.5 cents for transactional (and 2.5 cents for promotional, though I don't know if this is reliable enough).
When the client uses their own iPhone, the SMS is included in their plan, and costs them nothing extra.
I am building a web-based application for the client and the question is 'Can I send SMS via a handset connected to the client's desktop PC'. I think the answer is no, but would like to be surprised. The application is responsive, so what about if they triggered the messages from a browser on the phone? Still no?
If you could use an Android phone instead an iPhone, you could create a small gateway app on the Android that can send text messages without the need for the user's intervention.
It could work like this:
The Android app would have a simple REST interface, a good start could be https://github.com/NanoHttpd/nanohttpd.
An endpoint in the Android app could send messages, see Sending SMS programmatically without opening message app
The software on the computer would use the rest endpoint on the Android phone to send the message.
This wouldn't work on the iPhone because it doesn't allow an app to send a text message without the user's intervention.
I have a few problems listening to incoming invitetions,
1) onInvitationReceived is not called when an invite is received when app on (i registerInvitationListener to my gamesClient in onSignInSucceeded)
2) no notification will pop up when the app isnt open aswell.
i was trying to add plusClient in the BaseGameActivity but still no change, is something need to be done to make the app listen to invites that im missing?
do i need to publish it to see invite notifications?
sending invites to someone that doesnt have the app should send him to google play?
Invitations are delivered via push notification (like GCM), so several factors may influence in the system's ability to deliver them. If you don't get invites through the notification bar, there is something wrong with the network or with the device. Push messages are somehow not getting through to it. Can you send a gtalk ping to the device, and does it appear on the notification bar?
Once you do get to a state where notifications via notification bar are showing, but are not able to receive them in your app, I'd check:
(1) Are you registering an anonymous listener as an invitation listener? That's problematic. Take a look at this tip.
(2) Are you waiting a sufficient amount of time? Sometimes it may take > 30sec before a notification arrives, depending on network connectivity. With good network it should be faster, though.
After the latest update of Whatsapp on Widows Phone Store, I have noticed that now, once they show the toast of message on my device, then they mark the message as delivered (notify the sender that the message has reached my device).
After I let the toast notification go away, I switched off all my data connection and opened Whatsapp and found that that particular message in my app. This is happening consistently on both wp7 and wp8 device. This was happening even when I had disabled background agent! Beside background agent of an app does not run all the time.
So my questions is, on windows phone platform, where the app is not allowed to run in background all the time, how is Whatsapp application getting those messages? Is it using any particular api/hack to get(in app) those messages when it's not on foreground.
The question you have asked has two parts: one for wp7 and the other for wp8. I will anser each one by one.
Windows phone 7
Based on my research, I have found that whatsapp is still using audio streaming api on wp7 devices to stream messages in the background i.e. when the app is not running. Whatsapp was criticized of using this API as constantly using this causes battery drainage as well as hampers the music experience of the user.
Windows Phone 8
Once whatsapp moved to wp8 they stopped using the Audio API and moved to VOIP API. Note that whatsapp doesn't use VOIP for any purpose but their manifest shows usage of VOIP api, and after reading many articles I have come to the conclusion that they are using this API to activate background agent and pool messages in the background.
While sending raw push of type 4, the background agent for VOIP is activated in which you can practically do anything from reading the payload to establishing a new socket connection subjected to restriction on usage of certain APIs
I have also found out that even if a user disables bg agents for an app some essential bg agent still continue to run for eg bg agents in audio stream API and VOIP API.
I hope this answers your question.
Go through this link
Push notification for Windows Phone
What will help you to understand is
The server maintains a maximum of 30 notifications (regardless of type) for each URI. Once the limit of 30 is reached, all new messages sent to the server are discarded until the device reconnects and the queue can be flushed.
In windows phone there is something called raw notifications, these are different from push notifications, push notifications display a notification, but raw notifications triggers a background task that can run under certain api restrictions for about 15 seconds. (I think, I'm not sure about the time duration), I think what whatsapp does is that it downloads the message and saves it in a local database which is maintained in the device. When whatsapp is opened it will read the local database and also sync with the server.
Please correct me if I am wrong.
I am developing app in wp7 in which i have to send email.
there is one functionality is whenever the internet is not available it will put mail in queue and as phone connected to internet it will automatically send all the queued email.
so any one has idea how to implement this functionality in wp7?
You can have an background agent (executed once every 30 minutes) that will check if the connection is available nd if it is, sends the email.
It is widely known that you can disable the reception of Apple notifications from the applications that allow it. But does anyone know if the disabling is made locally (ignoring the notifications Apple sends to the app), or does Apple stop sending you notifications from it's servers?
I've finally discovered in depth how Apple Push Notifications work: if you disable the notifications on one app, Apple does not know of this behavior instantly, so it keeps sending notifications to the device whenever they are created. These notifications will try to reach your app, but instead they will be sent back to Apple with an error code. That feedback will be sent to your servers (the ones that order Apple to distribute your app notifications). You will have to check that information regularly so that if one device has returned a certain amount of "errors", it means that the user has disabled the notifications (or has even uninstalled the app)
Further information: Local and Push Notification Programming Guide