Sending SMS in iOS with Swift
First of all, I'm really surprised that this is not a duplicate, because there are TONS of stackoverflow questions that solve this in Objective-C, but I have yet to see a good answer that used Swift.
What I'm looking for is a code snippet in Swift that sends an arbitrary string as a the body of a text message to given phone number. Essentially, I'd like something like this from Apple's official documentation, but in Swift instead of Objective-C.
I imagine this isn't too difficult, as it can be done in just a couple of lines of code in Android.
EDIT: What I'm looking for is 5-20 lines of Swift code, I do not agree that this is too broad. In Java (for Android), the solution looks like this:
package com.company.appname;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.telephony.SmsManager;
public class MainActivity extends Activity {
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
public static final mPhoneNumber = "1111111111";
public static final mMessage = "hello phone";
SmsManager.getDefault().sendTextMessage(mPhoneNumber, null, mMessage, null, null);
}
}
Now this is the android solution, and it's only 11 lines. Java tends to be much more verbose than Swift, so I doubt what I'm asking is "too broad", it is more likely that I don't know how to use the Objective-C MessageComposer object, because the documentation that I linked to above is unclear with regard to usage in Swift.
Not sure if you really got the answer. I was in a similar hunt and came across this solution and got it to work.
import UIKit
import MessageUI
class ViewController: UIViewController, MFMessageComposeViewControllerDelegate {
@IBOutlet weak var phoneNumber: UITextField!
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
}
@IBAction func sendText(sender: UIButton) {
if (MFMessageComposeViewController.canSendText()) {
let controller = MFMessageComposeViewController()
controller.body = "Message Body"
controller.recipients = [phoneNumber.text]
controller.messageComposeDelegate = self
self.presentViewController(controller, animated: true, completion: nil)
}
}
func messageComposeViewController(controller: MFMessageComposeViewController!, didFinishWithResult result: MessageComposeResult) {
//... handle sms screen actions
self.dismissViewControllerAnimated(true, completion: nil)
}
override func viewWillDisappear(animated: Bool) {
self.navigationController?.navigationBarHidden = false
}
}
Swift 3.0 Solution:
func sendSMSText(phoneNumber: String) {
if (MFMessageComposeViewController.canSendText()) {
let controller = MFMessageComposeViewController()
controller.body = ""
controller.recipients = [phoneNumber]
controller.messageComposeDelegate = self
self.present(controller, animated: true, completion: nil)
}
}
func messageComposeViewController(_ controller: MFMessageComposeViewController, didFinishWith result: MessageComposeResult) {
//... handle sms screen actions
self.dismiss(animated: true, completion: nil)
}
override func viewWillDisappear(_ animated: Bool) {
self.navigationController?.isNavigationBarHidden = false
}