EnvayaSMS SMS gateway for Android

History

Note: EnvayaSMS is no longer in active development. Its successor is Telerivet, which contains many new features and bug-fixes not available in EnvayaSMS.

Read about the differences between EnvayaSMS and Telerivet

Verson 3.0 (2012/04/04)

Server can optionally push messages to phone in real-time using an AMQP server such as RabbitMQ (instead of polling). See example
Pending messages are backed up to persistent storage on the phone, so they will be restored if the phone runs out of battery or the EnvayaSMS app crashes.
Sends the phone's battery level and power charging state to the server.
Allow forwarding previously saved MMS from the Messaging app inbox to the server.
Allow forwarding previously sent messages from the Messaging app to the server.
Server can update the EnvayaSMS settings remotely (in addition to manually changing them in the app).
Server can cancel pending outgoing messages remotely (in addition to manually cancelling them in the app).
PHP server library interface changed. See instructions for upgrading
Simplified PHP example code.
HTTP response format changed from XML to JSON.
Test mode setting to automatically add recipients of outgoing messages.

Verson 2.0.5 (2012/03/15)

Option to notify server of incoming calls (enabling users to access simple SMS services for free by calling and hanging up, then receiving a SMS reply)
Send additional information from phone to server, such as the phone's current network type, age (delay) of incoming messages, device manufacturer, model, and SDK version
Various bug fixes

EnvayaSMS for Drupal (2012/03/04)

Mark Burdett / VozMob released the EnvayaSMS Drupal module, to make it easy for any Drupal site to send and receive SMS messages via EnvayaSMS.

Version 2.0.4 (2011/11/29)

Support long-polling to enable server to send outgoing SMS with minimal latency.

Version 2.0.3 (2011/11/25)

Allow user to configure phone numbers to ignore, and optionally ignore all shortcodes or non-numeric senders.

Version 2.0.1 (2011/10/10)

Send EnvayaSMS log messages to server via log parameter
Notify server of changes in the Android device's power/battery state via device_status action.

Version 2.0 (2011/10/01)

Automatic failover between Wi-Fi and mobile data connection if server is unreachable (e.g. when Wi-Fi router is on, but it has no internet access)
User can see all pending messages, and retry/delete individual messages
Send timestamp of incoming messages to server
Allow outgoing SMS messages to be sent in priority order
Reschedule outgoing messages when the Android outgoing SMS limit would be exceeded

Version 2.0-beta (2011/09/23)

Enable sending more than Android's limit of 100 messages/app/hour via expansion packs
Forward incoming MMS messages to server
Send and receive multipart SMS (longer than 160 characters)
Authenticate with password shared between phone and server
Retry forwarding messages after a delay if there is an error (e.g. due to temporarily broken internet or GSM connection)
Notify server of the status of outgoing messages
Support multiple phones connecting to same server
Show log messages to user to facilitate troubleshooting
User-configurable interval to poll for new outgoing messages
Option to prevent incoming messages from being stored in Messaging inbox
Option to forward messages already received in Messaging inbox
Option to enable/disable all SMS gateway functionality
Perform all HTTP requests asynchronously for better performance
Server API changed to use POST requests instead of GET requests, and other changes; support for future server API changes via 'version' request parameter
Automatically start when the phone boots
Test mode to allow forwarding SMS from only certain phone numbers
Add server library and example code for PHP
Rename new version to EnvayaSMS
Create EnvayaSMS website

KalSMS version 1 (2010/10/04)

Initial release with support for receiving incoming SMS and sending replies (Nir Yariv)