I totally agree with you on this one but its not for us to say and we probably can't do anything about it besides trying to devise workarounds. I don't know about deleting messages from the SMS provider but maybe you can prevent them from being stored in the first place: give your receiver a ridiculously high priority to try and get it first in line to get the broadcast message, then call abort_broadcast() to keep the default SMS app from ever getting it! Granted this approach won't work with certain SMS apps such as Handcent but I suspect you already have that issue anyhow! On Nov 10, 2013 5:55 AM, "BTJ" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have several app on Play that is specialized SMS apps, i.e. they use SMS > services provided by others.. > Like I have one app that uses the SMS services provided by banks to ask > for current amount on an account, transfer money between accounts, etc... > All this is done sending SMS and parsing SMS response... And this app is > very user friendly and does all the needed SMS handling.. > But now with the new 4.4 API, the app no longer can operate without > cluttering up the Inbox and Sent box of the SMS application... > Why on earth would a user need to save the sent messages for such an app?? > And also, before I could stop the response from being written to the inbox, > this is no longer possible.. > And in the text from Google about this API change it says: "....this will > create a better user experience...." How on earth is this going to be a > better user experience for my users!!??? > Now my users have to manually open the default SMS app and delete all the > messages that should not have been written to the SMS provider... > > Question: Can my app delete messages that have been written to the SMS > provider without being the default SMS app? > > > Regards, > > BTJ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Android Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
