Cristina, I have the same problem... I´ve already done this with J2ME (send the SMS to some specific port)..
but it seems that android don´t support this yet... On 10 out, 18:49, Jonathan Herriott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bump. This needs to be addressed. > > On Aug 29, 10:31 am, Cristina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi! > > > I am actually using the http client library in order to comunicate > > from my app to the server. > > The problem is that I want also the server to send some kind of > > "events" to the phone..so I need also to open a comunication from the > > central server to the phone... In this case, the phone will act as a > > server receiving the events... > > > That is why I was thinking about sending the events from the central > > server using SMS...but if I cannot avoid others to receive those SMS, > > this option is not valid either... Gtalk was the other option, but > > there is not GTalk in 0.9.. > > > I do not want either to use polling (the phone asking the server for > > events from time to time) > > > Any other option? wappush? sending SMS to a port associated to the app > > like in J2ME? > > > On 28 ago, 20:16, "Megha Joshi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 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/packa... > > > > > Any other idea?- Ocultar texto de la cita - > > > > - Mostrar texto de la cita -- Ocultar texto de la cita - > > > > - Mostrar texto de la cita - > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
