Re: [android-developers] Who decided the new SMS API in 4.4 was a good thing!??

Yes, I have that problem with Handcent... :-|
But your suggestion won't work because there is no priority anymore in 4.4.. The documenation I found says the following..:

"Note that—beginning with Android 4.4—any attempt by your app to abort the SMS_RECEIVED_ACTION broadcast will be ignored so all apps interested have the chance to receive it."

And according to the same documentation, non-default app can not do write operations agains the SMS provider, ala delete, etc... :-|

This is starting to remind me of the iOS API, sigh..............


BTJ

On Sunday, November 10, 2013 5:28:59 PM UTC+1, Steve Gabrilowitz wrote:

I totally agree with you on this one but its not for us to say and we probably can't do anything about it besides trying to devise workarounds.  I don't know about deleting messages from the SMS provider but maybe you can prevent them from being stored in the first place:  give your receiver a ridiculously high priority to try and get it first in line to get the broadcast message, then call abort_broadcast() to keep the default SMS app from ever getting it!  Granted this approach won't work with certain SMS apps such as Handcent but I suspect you already have that issue anyhow!

On Nov 10, 2013 5:55 AM, "BTJ" <bt.jo...@gmail.com> wrote:

I have several app on Play that is specialized SMS apps, i.e. they use SMS services provided by others..
Like I have one app that uses the SMS services provided by banks to ask for current amount on an account, transfer money between accounts, etc...
All this is done sending SMS and parsing SMS response... And this app is very user friendly and does all the needed SMS handling..
But now with the new 4.4 API, the app no longer can operate without cluttering up the Inbox and Sent box of the SMS application...
Why on earth would a user need to save the sent messages for such an app?? And also, before I could stop the response from being written to the inbox, this is no longer possible..
And in the text from Google about this API change it says: "....this will create a better user experience...." How on earth is this going to be a better user experience for my users!!???
Now my users have to manually open the default SMS app and delete all the messages that should not have been written to the SMS provider...

Question: Can my app delete messages that have been written to the SMS provider without being the default SMS app?


Regards,

BTJ

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google
Groups "Android Developers" group.
To post to this group, send email to android-d...@googlegroups.com
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
android-developers+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com
For more options, visit this group at
http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to android-developers+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google
Groups "Android Developers" group.
To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
android-developers+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com
For more options, visit this group at
http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to android-developers+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.