This plugin is one of the examples of the "JavaScript Mobile Application Development" book which can be reached at:
http://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Native-Mobile-Apps-Development/dp/1783554177/
https://www.packtpub.com/web-development/javascript-native-mobile-apps-development
This plugin allows you to send SMS message to a specific phone number for Android, iOS and Windows Platform 8. Here is an example below:
var messageInfo = {
phoneNumber: "xxxxxxxxxx",
textMessage: "This is a test message"
};
sms.sendMessage(messageInfo, function(message) {
console.log("success: " + message);
}, function(error) {
console.log("code: " + error.code + ", message: " + error.message);
});
As you notice you just need to call sms.sendMessage(messageInfo, successCallback, failureCallback):
In order to install the plugin you can:
Install it from NPM registry as follows:
npm i hazems-cordova-plugin-sms
or simply use the following Cordova CLI command:
cordova plugin add https://github.com/hazems/cordova-sms-plugin.git
or
cordova plugin add com.jsmobile.plugins.sms
For iOS and Windows Phone platforms, it is not possible to send SMS directly without opening the default device SMS application. This means that the API will only open and track the SMS application events (cancel, successful sending, un-successful sending, ...etc) in iOS platform. For Windows Phone 8, the plugin will only open the SMS application without tracking its events because tracking SMS application events is not currently applicable in Windows 8 platform.
You can reach the test client of this plugin here: https://github.com/hazems/cordova-sms-plugin-test/
Special Thanks to [appcoda.com]() for helping me in implementing the iOS part of this plugin:
http://www.appcoda.com/ios-programming-send-sms-text-message/
It is Apache License, Version 2.0. Feel free to fork the project and send pull requests if you have any.