Help me being lazy

[boten]

Being naturally lazy, I write programs to make my life easier. One daily task is to send fairly fixed SMS to several contacts, so I wrote a small program that sends my SMS to the fixed contacts. Basically it is:

Dim smsmsg As PhoneSms
smsmsg.Send("0123456789","my msg here")
... more numbers to send
smsmsg.Send("0987654321","my msg here")

Now I want to save money too. I installed Viber and I wonder if there's a way to interface into Viber for sending SMS.
What I'm looking is the equivalent of Windows VB:

rc = Shell("viber.exe parms")

Any idea how to do that?

 

[magarcan]

Maybe calling Viber as activity and passing phone number and message as parameters... but I don't know if Viber has any activity that allow you to do this.
:signOops:

 

[Erel]

This should be done with Intents. You should check whether Viber supports intents.

 

[boten]

can you point to a general example on how to use intents ? (assuming they are supported by Viber)

 

[Erel]

There are many relevant threads: Basic4android Search: intent

 

[boten]

I got this far by trial & (lots of) error :

Dim i As Intent
i.Initialize(i.ACTION_MAIN,"")
i.SetComponent("com.viber.voip/.IdleActivity")
StartActivity(i)

Brings up Viber's main screen.

How can I query the possible actions/activities available under Viber?
How can I pass the parameters for making a call/send sms?

 

[thedesolatesoul]

Look into Viber's manifest xml file to see what it exposes.
EDIT: or I think PackageManager can also tell you.

 

[Erel]

You should check their website. If they support any intents then it should be documented somewhere.

 

[boten]

No documentation on their site and cudn't find any *viber*.xml on my phone (not rooted).

How wud PackageManager show the available actions?

 

[thedesolatesoul]

No documentation on their site and cudn't find any *viber*.xml on my phone (not rooted).

How wud PackageManager show the available actions?

For documented intents you may want to contact the developers because they may change support at any time.
PackageManager only gives the intent to start the application, my bad.
You may find more intents in the AndroidManifest.xml file, that is inside the apk file of the app. They are in /data/apps I think, but you need to be rooted to access that area.