ToughtWorks’ Technology Radar – new edition

Is this new technology worth learning or maybe it is yet ready to use in production? ToughtWorks is a consulting company working, among others, on assesments of emerging technologies maturity. Here is the new edition of its Technology Radar - January 2014. I am sure that everybody will find out what interests him in this document. …

Android tutorial: mark SMS as read / unread

When your app uses SMS inbox, you may want to be able to mark particular message as read or unread. SMS inbox has a property assigned to each message that indicates whether message is read or unread. You can access this property by ContentProvider. Here is how to do it: 1. Require WRITE and READ …

iOS tutorial: Send SMS programmatically

iOS is very strict when it comes to using phone capabilities in applications. It limits usage because of security reasons, so in fact, as an iPhone application developer you can't send SMS in background or listen for incoming SMS messages. The only solution to send SMS is to initiate the built in SMS application where …

Android tutorial: Send SMS programatically

SmsManager has a method that is sending SMS message completely without user's interaction needed. If You need to send SMS from your code: 1. Use SmsManager Add these lines to your app import android.telephony.SmsManager; SmsManager smsManager = SmsManager.getDefault(); smsManager.sendTextMessage("123456789", null, "sms message", null, null); You can replace these nulls with Intents (according to documentation) that …