How to send sms and call from app?

Question

I have situation where On clicking on app icon i have to send sms and call to a 5 numbers....do we have any third party api's or we have predefined classes in ios?

You can use `MFMessageComposeViewController ` to send a message. But you can only call on number at a time using the `tel:` scheme. — rckoenes, Feb 17 '17 at 12:16

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 17 '17 at 12:22

regarding the second part of your question "predefined classes in ios"

you can open the device caller or messages app using a url:

func sms(to number: String) {
   guard let url = URL(string: "sms:" + number) else {
      return
   }

   UIApplication.shared.openURL(url)
}

func call(_ number: String) {
   guard let url = URL(string: "tel://" + number) else {
      return
   }

   UIApplication.shared.openURL(url)
}

example:

sms(to: "12345678901")
call("12345678901")

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 17 '17 at 12:21

You can send same message to multiple user at same time using MFMessageComposerView. You can use third party api to message like Nexmo and Twilio.

You can do call once a time. Below is code for call:

NSString *phoneNumber = @"YOUR_CALL_NUMBER"; 
NSString *phoneURLString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"tel:%@", phoneNumber];
NSURL *phoneURL = [NSURL URLWithString:phoneURLString];
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:phoneURL];

How to send sms and call from app?

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