Android Question Which value should be assigned to 'PhoneSms'?

[jnjft]

If I use the following code - which I found in the forum - for sending an sms, the IDE moans that 'ps is never assigned any value'. However, if I comment the 'Dim ps as PhoneSms' out, sending an sms fails.
Why is that? Which value should be assigned to ps to prevent the IDE from complaining?
Here's the code I found (unfortunately I messed up the formatting a little bit, sorry for that):

Sub SendSms(PhoneNumber AsString, Text AsString)
' if smssendallow = true then 'give the option to deny sms text sending in the settings.
Try

Dim ps As PhoneSms '-> Sending sms doesn't work if this is commented out

Dim r As Reflector
 r.Target = r.RunStaticMethod("android.telephony.SmsManager", "getDefault", Null, Null)
 r.RunMethod4("sendTextMessage", ArrayAs Object(PhoneNumber, Null, Text, Null, Null), _
ArrayAsString("java.lang.String", "java.lang.String", "java.lang.String", _
"android.app.PendingIntent", "android.app.PendingIntent"))
ToastMessageShow("Sent SMS Text to " & PhoneNumber, False) 
Catch
Log("Failed to send SMS to " & PhoneNumber)
End Try
End Sub

Thanks and best regards

 

[jnjft]

'moan' is not the right word perhaps - my English is improvable... say, the IDE points out that ps is never assigned a value

 

[mangojack]

See this for an explanation ... https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/sendsms-question.31408/#post-183038

You can add the following attribute to your module ... #IgnoreWarnings: 10

 

[jnjft]

Thanks for the link to the explanation!