How to get mobile text messaging working

[Hendricus]

Dear LiveCoders,

I have been trying to get my app to trigger preparing a text message (SMS) on an android device. At first I tried with:

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put "This is a test text" into tMessage
put URLEncode(tMessage) into tMessage
launch url "sms:" & tMobile & "&body=" & tMessage

This starts the text messaging app on the android phone, selecting the name for the phone number in the tMobile variable, but it leaves the message empty. I have tried variations with the body parameter, to have a ';' instead of the '&' and other combinations. They didn't work. Then I came across the specific functions for this in the LiveCode Dictionary (mobileCanComposeTextMessage(), and mobileComposeTextMessage tMobile, tMessage). But these seem to fail too. With the following code I get the answer "Cannot send text messages" on my android phone when I press the button.

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on mouseUp
   if mobileCanComposeTextMessage() then 
      answer "Text Messages can be sent"
   else 
      answer "Cannot send text messages"
   end if
end mouseUp

Are there some settings for the standalone or elsewhere that are needed to get this to work?

[AndyP]

Try changing this line

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launch url "sms:" & tMobile & "&body=" & tMessage

To

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launch url "sms:" & tMobile & "?body=" & tMessage

Notice the & was replaced with ?

I've not tested but I think this is the problem?

[Klaus]

In any case you should add parentheses!

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launch url("sms:" & tMobile & "/body=" & tMessage)

[Hendricus]

Awesome. The code works perfectly like this:

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launch url("sms:" & tMobile & "?body=" & tMessage)

Thanks for the feedback. I still wonder why the mobileCanComposeTextMessage() doesn't work though. Anyone used this before?