SMS is probably problematic on more than one level. There are HTTP api's and that's what you want. JAVA has an api and Apache has one as well.
On Aug 26, 9:35 am, Cristina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > We are designing an application for android phones. In our application > there is a central server, and this server must send some application > information to the phone. > So, we thought to use SMS in order to communicate with our application > in the phone. > Our application will look for messages with a particular prefix and > consume it. Other applications (including messagig applications) > should not get the application SMS messages. > > In order to do that, we have implemeted a Sms BroadcastReceiver, that > get all SMS messages, but only processed the ones with the application > prefix. After processing them, we do an abortBroadcast(), in order to > stop the broadcast of the message to the Messaging application or > other applications receiving the same intent. > > However, SMS Inbox is receiving the message, and is showing the > message in the notification application. > > 1. Is there any way for an application to receive the SMS message, > avoiding the rest of applications to receive it? Is abortBroadcast > working for SMS broadcast intents? I understand that maybe the > abortBroadcast is not working for SMS broadcast intents, because of > security reasons (for example we could abort the broadcast of all SMS > messages ). Is there another way for an application to to receive SMS > messages in an "exclusive" way (the rest of applications do not > receive it)? > > 2. Is there any other way to communicate information from a external > server to the application in the phone? > > For example, In other projects with other phones we have used > transparent wappush to implement that communication..Does android > support wappush protocol? > > We would not like to implement an always open connection in the phone > application (where the phone acts like a server), because that implies > that we must have a list with all the IPs of the phones in order to > communicate with them..that complicates a lot the implementation... > > Any other idea? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Announcing the new Android 0.9 SDK beta! http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/08/announcing-beta-release-of-android-sdk.html For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
