2008/8/26 Cristina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 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)? >
I don't think you can alter the behavior of inbuilt apps, Messaging(SMS) is an inbuilt app, so you cannot do anything, it will receive SMS and show the notification. > 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... > You can use the inbuilt apache http client library in Android to communicate with your server app.. http://code.google.com/android/reference/org/apache/http/client/package-summary.html > > 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 [email protected] 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
