How to send and receive text messages without MFMessageComposeViewController?

Question

I want to send and receive text messages without showing MFMessageViewController from my application. Could anybody tell me how is it possible?

Answer 1

You can't do it without MFMessageComposeViewController. Apple won't allow to send SMS without user interaction.

I've alternate solution of this, out of scope of iOS. Use web service API. Create a web service at server side that send a message to specific number(s) that accept numbers as parameters with request.

At specific time interval (according to your requirement) send a web service call with number as request parameter.

Web server can do it. It can send message to any device.