Send as Email or SMS within Gideros

Pschew · December 2012

Hi,

I'm new to Gideros Mobile and want to know there's a function within Gideros that allow one to send email or SMS. I have tried the OpenURL() but it does not to trigger the email dialog in my test App running on IOS 6 although it pops up the email dialog when running on Gideros Player on my Mac.

Is there a similar function to Corona SDK's native.showPopup() http://www.coronalabs.com/blog/2012/01/03/composing-email-and-sms-in-corona/

I need this function to send emails from within the app to others people using their own email accounts and pre-populate with some HTML message.

Thanks for you help.

OZApps · December 2012

@Pschew, if you are after that functionality in iOS then you need to look at the WaxPlug-in, some examples of using this with Gideros can be found at

http://howto.oz-apps.com/2012/09/tweet-tweet-right-from-your-lua-app.html
http://howto.oz-apps.com/2012/09/get-developing-for-free-enterprise.html
and some other articles

The advantage of using this is that it will not break your app to display the dialog and it will allow for continuing with your app once you are done with the dialog by selecting send/cancel

You can use this code for creating mail

waxClass{"MFMailComposeViewController",protocols={"MFMailComposeViewControllerDelegate"}}
twit = MFMailComposeViewController:init()
twit:setMessageBody_isHTML("Here is the email text", false)
twit:setToRecipients({"jayant.in.oz@gmail.com","me@you.com"})
getRootViewController():presentModalViewController_animated(twit, true)
twit:setMailComposeDelegate(self)
twit:setSubject("Hello from code")
 
function mailComposeController_didFinishWithResult_error(self,controller, result, error)
  print(self, controller, result)  
  getRootViewController():dismissModalViewControllerAnimated(true)
end

SMS is a MFMessageComposeViewController

I thought I had an article on how to use this on http://howto.oz-apps.com so maybe soon...

Pschew · December 2012

@OZApps, much thanks for your informative reply.

I did hear about WaxPlug and am glad to learn that it will solve my issue for sending email within the IOS functionality. Will be trying it out and your code snippet

BTW, is there a similar functionality for the Android platform that any one knows of?

Help appreciated.

AlexCarter87 · January 2013

I think you could integrate Ozeki NG SMS Gateway to Gideros. It should solve all your problems related to SMS sending.

ar2rsawseen · January 2013

@Pschew yes there is a JVBridge plugin
http://www.giderosmobile.com/forum/discussion/2319/jvbridge-plugin-android/p1

vitalitymobile · January 2013

I agree with @ar2rsawseen
@Pschew with JVBridge plugin eventhough you can send SMS without showing dialog

(C* only show compose dialog and user can send or dispose it

)

krisis · April 2013

Thanks @OZApps for the code snippet.

In order to get it to work I also needed to add the MessageUI framework and #import in AppDelegate.m.

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