provides your application with the functionality to receive and process SMS and MMS from any mobile phone or device that supports these services.
Overview
The Playground Receive Messages service provides you with the means of receiving SMS and MMS messages from mobile terminals or other SMS/MMS enabled devices to your application. You will be granted access to a unique Short code and a routing word that will accept incoming messages. The functionality for receiving SMS and receiving MMS are provided by two separate services. The services can be used as standalone services for receiving content like text, images and/or audio or bundled with other Playground services.
Features
The Receive Messages Service offers the following features:
- Receive SMS messages from mobile handsets
- Receive MMS messages from mobile handsets
- Support for notification to application of new incoming messages
- Support for application polling for incoming messages that are queued on the server
Usage Examples
The Playground Receive Messages service is used to receive messages from mobile phones based on the subscribers sending messages to a dedicated phone number. The service can be used to iniate a service delivery where mobile users are required to provide input to the service, e.g. placing an order for a product, giving their vote or answer to a competition, providing pictures to be shared by others etc.
Java Code Sample:
// The mailbox parameter represents your dedicated mailbox // An array of all new SMS messages is returned SmsMessage[] receivedsms = SmsReceiverservice.getReceivedSms(mailboxID);
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