[SailfishDevel] Status of Sailfish SMS?

[John Brooks]

Hi,

On Nov 15, 2013, at 8:01 AM, christopher.lamb at thurweb.ch wrote:

> Hi Jonni
> 
> Could you please confirm whether or not it will be possible to send SMSes direct from an app? (from your reply below it seems this will not be possible).

As Robin said, the only API we’re supporting initially is the ability to launch the messaging application to send a SMS, particularly via a sms: URL.The reason for that is simple: most of the relevant middleware is not yet written to offer any API guarantees, and we intend to change it quite a bit in updates going forward. We don’t have documentation, and couldn’t offer any promise that applications using those APIs would continue working after updates.

>From my understanding, store applications are only supposed to use supported API. I’m not sure of the specifics of how that works; maybe one of the Harbor guys could answer?

> My app Landed on Harmattan could send SMS directly - indeed it is the raison-d'etre for the app, and it is obvious to the user that he is sending an SMS (so no problems of secret bypassing...).
> 
> My understanding was that it should be possible to send SMS from an app on Sailfish using Telepathy.

It is possible, and it will install and work without any modification to the device. It isn’t documented or properly supported, and it may change in incompatible ways at any time, for now. I realize that’s not ideal, but it’s still very early in creating a platform, and we need the flexibility to improve things.

> I would be thankful for clarification on this issue.

I hope that helps.

—
John Brooks
Jolla

> 
> Chris
> 
> Zitat von "Jonni Rainisto" <jonni.rainisto at jolla.com>:
> 
>> Afaik, if you try to send sms, it opens default messaging application where you can enter the sms. And same for outgoing phonecalls, opens phone application where you can make a call.
>> 
>> Reasoning behind it is that as those call create a phone bill to end user, then applications are not allowed to secretly bypass default applications. But dont take my word on it, its just AFAIK on store QA process.
>> 
>> But ofcourse if you enable developer mode you can do what ever you want. I'm not familiar with that side of middleware, so someone else can comment more.
>> 
>> re, Jonni
>> 
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>> From: devel-bounces at lists.sailfishos.org [devel-bounces at lists.sailfishos.org] on behalf of Seppo Tiainen [seppo.tiainen at gmail.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 8:19 PM
>> To: devel at lists.sailfishos.org
>> Subject: [SailfishDevel] Status of Sailfish SMS?
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Does anybody know about a possible module and its status in Sailfish/Qt-5 that corresponds to Harmattan Qt Mobility Messaging so that it would be possible to send and receive SMSs (which is essential in my app) through Qt/QML on the Jolla phone?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Seppo
>> 
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