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Dev.W

Reputation: 2370

Ionic & Cordova SMS Plugin

I'm trying to add the SMS cordova plugin to my ionic application but I'm failing miserably.

I've no idea how to inject the plugin or use it the documentation seems to be more phonegapp orientated.

I've got the following:

Installed

cordova plugin add https://github.com/cordova-sms/cordova-sms-plugin.git

My view

  <button ng-click="send()">Test</button>

My Controller

angular.module('starter.controllers', [])

.controller('DashCtrl', function($scope, $http, $state, $cordovaSms) {

      $scope.send = function(){

      $cordovaSms
      .send('phonenumber', 'SMS content')
      .then(function() {
        // Success! SMS was sent
      }, function(error) {
        // An error occurred
      });

      };

})

I get the following error: 

    ionic.bundle.js:26794 Error: [$injector:unpr] Unknown provider: 

$cordovaSmsProvider <- $cordovaSms <- DashCtrl

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3204

Answers (3)

grecio beline
grecio beline

Reputation: 51

Google changed the policy regarding to SMS access, so the direct reading of incoming SMS is no longer allowed and the associated permissions will be removed (SMS_READ).

Now, it is necessary to use the Android SMS Retriever API (Android SMS Retriever API) and your SMS message needs to comply a specific format in order to be intercepted by your app.

In Cordova use this plugin to easily read incoming SMS:

cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-android-sms-retriever

Github: https://github.com/diegosiao/cordova-plugin-android-sms-retriever

Upvotes: 1

Arizona2014
Arizona2014

Reputation: 1347

On IONIC 2 , the cordova-sms-plugin its the solution choose for the native SMS plugin. So far so good, except the case you want to send messages to multiple recipients.

At this moment, cordova-sms-plugin does not send to multiple recipients, even if we use string array. It will successfully send to first recipient, but not to the rest of array.

So after I searched a while I got another cordova plugin, which sends messages to all numbers in array. The only problem is, if among those numbers are invalid or incomplete phone numbers, it simply ignores them and pass to the next number to send.

Would be nice to have a callback or at least a trace, when certain numbers are invalid or incomplete, but at least it sends to multimple numbers.

Cheers

Upvotes: 0

MikeC
MikeC

Reputation: 461

I think it's a casing issue. Are you using ionic-native yet? If not, start there. bower install ionic-native --save bower uninstall ngCordova --save

Then replace ngCordova with ionic.native in your module dependencies.

Here is working code from one of my projects...

   .controller('RosterCtrl', function ($cordovaSMS, ...

   // snip ....

    $cordovaSMS.send(phone, message)
      .then(function () {
        $log.log('Message sent.');
      });

Upvotes: 1

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