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Take your app offline via SMS

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Gopi Krishnan Nambiar

This document discusses how SMS can be used to take Android apps offline. It provides examples of apps for finding low prices and searching Twitter hashtags that work offline through SMS. The txtWeb platform is introduced as a way for developers to build text-based apps that can be accessed through SMS without an internet connection using a simple API. Code examples are given for integrating SMS into apps and the overall workflow of the txtWeb platform is outlined.

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Take your Android apps offline via SMS By Pranay Airan (@pranayairan) & Gopi Krishnan(@gkrishnan)
Most of the connected people of the world have only a mobile phone without a data plan Global approximations India Example Broad -band Inter- Highly users net Internet connected ~15M users~ + mobile 5-10% 100M data plan Mobile users phone ~400 M users Connected Area of ~900 M 40-50% focus Total population ~1.2 B Not connected 40-55% Short Message Service (SMS) is the most widely used service by the connected population of the world, with 2.4B active users, or 74% of all mobile phone subscribers
Lets see some apps!
App demo : Low Price app Scans a bar code on the book Finds out its lowest price across vendors Works without any Wi-Fi as well !!
App demo : Twitter app Simple Twitter app to search on hashtags Same app functionality both online as well as offline
Lets see how we do it Search/json API Search/json SMS Wrapper SMS
What is txtWeb ? A global platform that enables: 1. Users to discover and consume bite-size textual services on-demand, and, 2. Developers and businesses to acquire and engage users on any mobile device through simple text- based apps Platform Highlights: Simple, easy, open API Platform is programming language agnostic Platform provides SMS HTTP transformation No coding work to integrate with txtWeb platform
User sends User receives Sanskrit ( ), is a historical Indo-Aryan language and the primary @wiki sanskrit liturgical language of Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism. Welcome to Bus Routes App! @busroute Reply with the following: @bus <from, to> Text @wiki sanskrit to 9243342000 to see this in action!
txtWeb Platform Example Step1: SMS to 92433 42000 Step 2: Accepts keyword Step 3: HTTP Step 4. App Message: @droidcon and invokes the App URL Request: GET Specific logic #droidcon URL:/droidcon? Mobile number : 9991211212 Message=droidcon & Mobile hash: <hash> Developer App txtWeb Platform Phone SMS SMS HTTP Internet HTTP Carrier Step 6: Twitter feed Step 5: HTTP Externally RESPONSE: 80 Hosted Received as SMS <html> twitter Environment feed</html>
SMS PHP code SMS Wrapper
Lets see how we do it on txtWeb http://developer.txtweb.com
txtWeb On Android
Thank you Get In touch with us Visit our Booth outside to know more about the android app and txtWeb You can reach us @ pranay_airan@intuit.com and gopi_nambiar@intuit.com
Appendix
Create a new service
Block your service name
Enter your service App URL
Test service on emulator/mobile
Enter description
Publish & Go Live !

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Take your app offline via SMS

  • 1. Take your Android apps offline via SMS By Pranay Airan (@pranayairan) & Gopi Krishnan(@gkrishnan)
  • 2. Most of the connected people of the world have only a mobile phone without a data plan Global approximations India Example Broad -band Inter- Highly users net Internet connected ~15M users~ + mobile 5-10% 100M data plan Mobile users phone ~400 M users Connected Area of ~900 M 40-50% focus Total population ~1.2 B Not connected 40-55% Short Message Service (SMS) is the most widely used service by the connected population of the world, with 2.4B active users, or 74% of all mobile phone subscribers
  • 4. App demo : Low Price app Scans a bar code on the book Finds out its lowest price across vendors Works without any Wi-Fi as well !!
  • 5. App demo : Twitter app Simple Twitter app to search on hashtags Same app functionality both online as well as offline
  • 6. Lets see how we do it Search/json API Search/json SMS Wrapper SMS
  • 7. What is txtWeb ? A global platform that enables: 1. Users to discover and consume bite-size textual services on-demand, and, 2. Developers and businesses to acquire and engage users on any mobile device through simple text- based apps Platform Highlights: Simple, easy, open API Platform is programming language agnostic Platform provides SMS HTTP transformation No coding work to integrate with txtWeb platform
  • 8. User sends User receives Sanskrit ( ), is a historical Indo-Aryan language and the primary @wiki sanskrit liturgical language of Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism. Welcome to Bus Routes App! @busroute Reply with the following: @bus <from, to> Text @wiki sanskrit to 9243342000 to see this in action!
  • 9. txtWeb Platform Example Step1: SMS to 92433 42000 Step 2: Accepts keyword Step 3: HTTP Step 4. App Message: @droidcon and invokes the App URL Request: GET Specific logic #droidcon URL:/droidcon? Mobile number : 9991211212 Message=droidcon & Mobile hash: <hash> Developer App txtWeb Platform Phone SMS SMS HTTP Internet HTTP Carrier Step 6: Twitter feed Step 5: HTTP Externally RESPONSE: 80 Hosted Received as SMS <html> twitter Environment feed</html>
  • 10. SMS PHP code SMS Wrapper
  • 11. Lets see how we do it on txtWeb http://developer.txtweb.com
  • 13. Thank you Get In touch with us Visit our Booth outside to know more about the android app and txtWeb You can reach us @ pranay_airan@intuit.com and gopi_nambiar@intuit.com
  • 15. Create a new service
  • 18. Test service on emulator/mobile
  • 20. Publish & Go Live !