IPHONE PROGRAMMING TIPS: DIALING NUMBER, OPENING EMAIL & SMS APPLICATIONS

Introduction

iPhone SDK did not gives you full control over iPhone functionality. But there are few things you can do using iPhoneSDK, like, you can dial a number from your application, you can open an email and SMS client from your application.

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Dial Number:

When you dial some number from your application then your application will go in background and in ideal state.
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"tel://123123"]];

Open Email application:

You can’t attached anything with email in SDK 2.2.1 or below. But in iPhone SDK 3.0 you can open an email client from within your application.
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"mailto:emailAdress?subject=testMail&body=its test mail."]];

Open SMS application:

You can not provide text for SMS
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"sms:111"]];