SMS reception plugin for Phonegap

By Pierre-Yves Orban

This Android Phonegap plugin allows you to receive incoming SMS. You have the possibility to stop the message broadcasting and, thus, avoid theincoming message native popup.

This plugin was successfully tested with Phonegap 2.5 and Android 4.2.2 (on a Samsung Galaxy Nexus device). This plugin was successfully tested with Codova 4.0.0 and Android 4.3/5.0.1 (on a Samsung Galaxy S3 & S4 & S5).

Adding this plugin to your project

cordova plugin add https://github.com/cesterlizi/Phonegap-SMS-reception-plugin.git

Using the plugin

isSupported

Check if the SMS technology is supported by the device.

Example:

    if(window.cordova && window.cordova.plugins && cordova.plugins.smsin) {
      console.log("SMS Plugin: check if supported");
      
      if(cordova.plugins.smsin) {
          cordova.plugins.smsin.isSupported (function(supported) {
              cordova.plugins.smsin.supported = supported;
              console.log("SMS supported: "+cordova.plugins.smsin.supported );
            }, function() {
              cordova.plugins.smsin.supported = false;
              console.log("SMS init error");
            });
      }

startReception

Start the SMS receiver waiting for incoming message The success callback function will be called everytime a new message is received. The given parameter is the received message formatted such as: phoneNumber>message (Exemple: +32472345678>Hello World) The error callback is called if an error occurs.

Example:

  cordova.plugins.smsin.startReception (function(msg) {
    alert(msg);
  }, function() {
    alert("Error while receiving messages");
  });

stopReception

Stop the SMS receiver

Example:

  cordova.plugins.smsin.stopReception (function() {
    alert("Correctly stopped");
  }, function() {
    alert("Error while stopping the SMS receiver");
  });

Aborting a broadcast

If you abort the broadcast using this plugin (by setting the broadcast variable to true in the SmsReceiver), the SMS will not be broadcast to other applications like the native SMS app. So ... be careful !

A good way to manage this is to stop the sms reception when the onPause event is fired and, when the onResume event is fired, restart the reception.

Licence

The MIT License

Copyright (c) 2013 Pierre-Yves Orban

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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