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cabbage for android
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Sanitarium wrote: »I wouldn't mind giving it a bash Sam wants to release the android source code. I can find the java version on his on his website but nothing about the android code. I've been writing a few simple apps to get used to the API and would love to code something useful.
I didn't develop the android app
It just uses my server in the background. If you want to write an app to send texts all the app actually has to do is make a simple web request. the address is:
http://cabbagetexter.com/send.php?u=PHONE_NUMBER&p=PASSWORD&s=NETWORK&d=RECIPIENT_NUMBER&m=MESSAGE
Replace the items in caps with someone's login details etc and you're away.
Replace NETWORK with m,o,v,t,e for Meteor, O2, Vodafone, Three or Eircom respectively.
What you get back is the number of messages the person has left that month or a negative number if it failed:
-1 means invalid login details
-2 means couldn't connect to the network website
-5 means managed to log in to the network site but didn't get the expected response text back (e.g. if web text is unavailable or something it will just give an error page instead of the text page it's expecting)
edit: and you don't have to worry about splitting the text up into 160 character chunks or anything like that, the server handles it0 -
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Thanks for the quick reply - just looking at three mobile here in the uk if I'm reading this right if you top up by £10 and convert it to an add on (not sure what that means?) it seems you get:
Convert to an Add-on when you Top-up at no extra charge to get better value on texts, calls and internet. For example, converting a £10 Top-up into an All in One 10 Add-on gets you 3,000 texts, 100 minutes and 500MB internet for a 30-day period. See standard rates below.
3000 texts sounds huge and I'd be surprised if anybody would send that many but if you could fire off a few hundred a month that sounds pretty good? Anyway maybe I'm reading the site wrong so I dunno?
Cheers
That's 3000 regular texts, not 3000 web texts 0 -
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It's not massively secure to be honest, your password is sent as part of a regular http request so it is possible for it to be intercepted along the way. But at the end of the day it's just a mobile phone login so it's not like someone can destroy your life if they get it and if they change the password you can always change it back because you have the sim. Even if they were sent in https they would have to be decrypted on my server to be forwarded on to the network websites so I'd be able to get the info anyway. It's the same with any service that you give your information to, you have to trust them not to abuse it. Luckily I'm a trustworthy kind of guyHi, great app...i never use up those web texts. One question though, how secure is it if your password is included in the http request?
Seriously though I have no interest in logging into random people's web text accounts.
The point of sending it as a plain http request is to keep data transfer to the bare minimum to keep costs down so you don't need a data plan and so you can use it abroad. There are plans to add an option to make a direct connection to the network website which would be secure and wouldn't send anything to a third party site though. The drawbacks of this method are that it would be slower, there would be much more data transferred and any time there's a change on the network site you'd have to download a new version where I can just change the server side script now but it would put some people's minds at ease.0 -
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Hi Sam,
Just a note if you are going to look at the android version of this i have a small bug. I didn't report before now as it seemed development had stopped and it does not prevent me using the app.
if you have multiple numbers saved under a contact cabbage fails to send. it does not even try and returns with an error about signal and credit immediately.
if i then delete the name and leave the number it sends perfectly. not sure the reasoning behind it.
(oddly enough it also happens with one contact i only have one number saved for?!
) but all contacts with multiple numbers it happens for.
thanks.0 -
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Hi Sam,
Just a note if you are going to look at the android version of this i have a small bug. I didn't report before now as it seemed development had stopped and it does not prevent me using the app.
if you have multiple numbers saved under a contact cabbage fails to send. it does not even try and returns with an error about signal and credit immediately.
if i then delete the name and leave the number it sends perfectly. not sure the reasoning behind it.
(oddly enough it also happens with one contact i only have one number saved for?!) but all contacts with multiple numbers it happens for.
thanks.
Hi Sam, just to update on this with more info, I assume you have not had a chance to look at the android version yet. It is not the multiple numbers per contact that is causing cabbage not to send I have discovered from tinkering. it is if the surname has an apostrophe. realised this after I tried texting people with an apostrophe and only one number and it failed. I then edited contact to no apostrophe and the message sends fine.0 -
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