All carriers that I am aware of have sms-to-email and email-to-sms gateways.
Appinventor generated apps can process incoming texts from an email address and
even store the email address as a text number in a variable or a tinydb entry.
Texting1.MessageRecieved
number < name number
messageText < messageText
That stored value can be used to send a text message successfully even if the
"number" is an email address.
set Texting1.PhoneNumber to value number
If you were to set PhoneNumber to text containing an email address then the
text would go to the wrong destination.
set Texting1.PhoneNumber to text dsweet@tgd-inc.com
Email addresses as texting phone numbers are converted to numbers. Strangly
the numbers are different with each email address but consistent for a given
email address.
Clearly the Texting component's PhoneNumber is stored internally as an object
of some kind which has multiple facets but the only way to set it is via a set
PhoneNumber method which converts its argument to a number.
I am phone model SGH-T989 but it is not hardware specific since the emulator
acts the same way.
I use chrome or firefox to develop from but this does not appear to be a
browser issue.
Original issue reported on code.google.com by dsweet0...@gmail.com on 11 Jun 2012 at 11:52
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
dsweet0...@gmail.comon 11 Jun 2012 at 11:52