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Did you use Google Cloud Messaging? If so, any chance you could post a tutorial or at least your thoughts on setting it up? There are a surprising lack of those around.
Using an Android app as an SMS gateway is convenient for personal texting, but it's even more valuable for organizations working in developing countries -- where SMS is even more important, but services like Twilio don't provide local phone numbers and getting a shortcode can cost thousands of dollars.
My start-up (http://telerivet.com) works with a bunch of organizations that pay us for a more advanced version of essentially the same basic concept. (For example, Kiva.org uses our system to communicate with their borrowers in Kenya via an Android SMS gateway.)
Did you use Google Cloud Messaging? If so, any chance you could post a tutorial or at least your thoughts on setting it up? There are a surprising lack of those around.
Yes I did. Right now I am using it in conjunction with Urban Ship, however, I will soon delink it. Would try to post some basic tutorial for GCM and let you know when its done. Tell me how I can contact you.
I was thinking of doing this exact thing, but I started another project. Useless? I disagree entirely. Having a place in the browser to text from is priceless . Perhaps the most obvious use case is texting without taking my phone out of my pocket? The next most obvious having a better and searchable UI to filter through texts? It's a good project.
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Did you use Google Cloud Messaging? If so, any chance you could post a tutorial or at least your thoughts on setting it up? There are a surprising lack of those around.
Yes I did. Right now I am using it in conjunction with Urban Ship, however, I will soon delink it. Would try to post some basic tutorial for GCM and let you know when its done. Tell me how I can contact you.