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Can someone recommend the best way (app service or how I can setup my own) to create a phone number on the web which I can text messages via my mobile phone and I program the responses? For example creating a Alice AI chat bot through my mobile.
Try www.tm4b.com for the sms gateway part
I ended up playing around with https://api.hashblue.com/doc/Home
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I'm trying to build a login system with a phone authentication system.
Does anyone of you have experience with this? I'm using fire base as a backend, and twilio for sending sms. So i need to send sms with a pin. i'm developing this app using (ionic + firebase + twilio)
Thanks
Twilio developer evangelist here.
In order to send SMS messages using Twilio you're going to need your own server so that you can make the API requests to the Twilio API. I checked through Firebase and there is nowhere for you to run your own code on there, which is a shame, though it does supply static site hosting these days, which is nice.
I recommend you take a look through the Twilio tutorials which will give you a good idea how to build an application that can perform the API requests for you. I might start by checking out:
SMS notifications in Node.js
Phone authentication using Authy in Node.js
(Authy is the best way of verifying and authenticating phone numbers and is part of Twilio now.)
Let me know if this helps at all.
I want to develop application on top of USSD codes.
I have a web app that shows the status of a request. Here, i need to create an USSD app that will take application no. from user and then server will show the status of application. Please help.
Is there a cross-platform mobile app dev environment that allow us to access the SMS inbox of the phone?
I would like to create messenger apps on different platforms(Android and Symbian at least) that plays around with SMS. I learnt that Phonegap and Mosync is currently not providing such API, and I am still finding it. Any suggestions?
MoSync allows you to send SMS, but like you say, it wont let you receive them.
I guess the reason is, most app only need to send sms, because incoming messages
can be picked up from a server. Also many apps use sms to generate spread/users,
once your app is connected to a IP service of some kind you just talk to the server.
There is of course the cost question, send sms costs app users money, receiving sms
can cost the service provider money.
How do Mobile Apps communicate with a server? Does this communication happen over HTTP or are there other methods (for instance, I guess a mobile app could open a socket)? Does this differ form device to device? Is there one most commonly used approach? If the communication happens over HTTP how do the URLs look like? Is there a way to identify the app based on the the "User Agent" in the HTTP request if the communication is happening over HTTP?
Mobile Apps can communicate with a server in many ways. Mobile apps can also use other features of the mobile. For instance SMS , MMS. Its pretty open really. Your question could be "how do computers communicate with a server?".
A mobile app can be a simple as loading a web page. This would be http.
The problem with mobile apps. They run on phones. There are lots of different phone manufacturers and its up to them (in some case the mobile phone operators also have weight) what to allow the programmer to do by the choice of operating system.
If you are getting started with mobile apps. Take a look at android its pretty simple to get going with if you know a little about programming.
As for the useragent. It depends but usually if you are using the http api on the phone, you can set the user agent to what ever you want it to be, its just a string.
Hope this helps!
Communication usually happens over http. Applications usually identify themselves in the User Agent field
Hi
I'm trying to develop a simple application in Silverlight to the facebook, I'm using the facebook C# SDK to be able to establish the connection.
I wonder if there is any instruction FQL to invite a friend to the application and keep track of "who invited who" and also if there is any field in FQL to save, for example, the high score of my friends who share the application
thanks
You use requests to send an invite. See this article for more information: http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/453