Hi Mike I think you misunderstood. I am just talking about limitation of sending text to SMS through Intent ACTION_SEND. I am not talking about how the SMS is sending the message.
Thanks AJ On Mar 23, 11:25 pm, mike <[email protected]> wrote: > Er, um, isn't SMS limited to 160 chars? > > Mike > > On 03/23/2010 02:08 PM, AJ wrote: > > > Hi Mark, > > > Thanks for the reply > > > I am also using the same what you written. But in my device it is > > limited to only 200 characters. > > > I checked the code and verified the result again. > > > Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND); > > intent.setType("text/plain"); > > intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "some very big > > texxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxt"); > > _activity.startActivity(intent); > > > In my device the limit is 200 and in your device its 552. Its ok. > > Anyway we can't send unlimited data to SMS through ACTION_SEND. > > > But I am curious to know where the limitation is being defined. So > > that I can check that. > > > Thanks > > AJ > > > On Mar 23, 10:32 pm, Mark Murphy<[email protected]> wrote: > > >> AJ wrote: > > >>> Hi All > > >>> I am invoking SMS application through Intent.ACTION_SEND with some > >>> text. My text has more than 200 characters. But when the SMS > >>> application gets invoked it has only first 200 characters. > > >>> Is this is the limitation of Intent.ACTION_SEND? > > >> You have asked this several times today. > > >> I have just successfully sent 552 characters via ACTION_SEND to the > >> Messaging application. > > >> Therefore, my guess is that the problem lies in your code somewhere. I > >> would get rid of the sms_body extra and just use Intent.EXTRA_TEXT. > > >> -- > >> Mark Murphy (a Commons > >> Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > >> Android 2.0 Programming Books:http://commonsware.com/books -- 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 To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
