Tired of putting down your Nexus 7 to check a new SMS on your phone? Me too. Cloud SMS is run on both your phone and tablet to allow you to send and receive SMS messaging from your tablet.
This app works over the Internet and does not require bluetooth, does not share (or transmit) your contacts, and even hashes your account email for added security. Typical messages take about 100ms to transmit. Cloud SMS will be a commercial application ($0.99) when testing is complete.
A Note to Moderators: I was not aware of the rules for paid apps. I will move this discussion to the proper paid apps / announcements later today to adhere to the set rules. I apologize for not knowing the rules first. I'd really appreciate it if you could let me keep this here until tonight when I move it (I'm at work now).
Important - It was brought to my attention that this thread (paid app) should be in the general apps / releases area. Click here for the new thread where I will continue to support this app and discuss features and issues. Thank you everyone!
Super Important & Complex Setup Instructions
Download now at the Google Play Store!
Updates
1.0.2
1.0.1
Release Candidate 5 - Sun Oct 21
Release Candidate 4 - Sat Oct 20
Release Candidate 3 - Fri Oct 19 @ 10:55pm EST (Updated - Version #5)
Release Candidate - Thurs Oct 18
Beta Build 6 - Wed Oct 17
Beta Build 5 - Tues Oct 16 #2
Beta Build 4 - Tues Oct 16
Beta Build 3 - Mon Oct 15 - Build #2 - Updated Build Sent to Testers (Thanks guys!)
Bug Fixes + New Features
Beta Build 2 - Sun Oct 14 - Sent out updates to existing testers, and send PMs to a few others, thanks!
Bug Fixes + New Features
Beta Build 1 - Fri Oct 12
Current Bugs
Required Permissions
Using Go SMS? Do this:
Any comments, questions, or feedback?
This app works over the Internet and does not require bluetooth, does not share (or transmit) your contacts, and even hashes your account email for added security. Typical messages take about 100ms to transmit. Cloud SMS will be a commercial application ($0.99) when testing is complete.
A Note to Moderators: I was not aware of the rules for paid apps. I will move this discussion to the proper paid apps / announcements later today to adhere to the set rules. I apologize for not knowing the rules first. I'd really appreciate it if you could let me keep this here until tonight when I move it (I'm at work now).
Important - It was brought to my attention that this thread (paid app) should be in the general apps / releases area. Click here for the new thread where I will continue to support this app and discuss features and issues. Thank you everyone!
Super Important & Complex Setup Instructions
- Install and run on phone
- Install and run on tablet
- Done... Ready to go!
Download now at the Google Play Store!
Updates
1.0.2
- Added two way message sent indicator to Message View which starts yellow, and turns Green on message sent.
- Added a service which watches for networks to change (mobile to wifi, changing wifi) and requests an update with the server to remain synced.
- Changed behavior of Persistent notifications - Now called Always Show Notifications. When Unchecked, notifications are hidden after 5 seconds, except for new messages, which remain until clicked or dismissed.
1.0.1
- Fixed sent messages showing unread on phone when sent from tablet
- Showing default contact icon when contact database gives multiple local account photo ids.
- Code preparation for upcoming feature
- All communications are transmitted over https (2048 bit encryption)
- New icons for unread messages (much cleaner looking)
- Fixed bug where long multi part messages would not send from tablet
Release Candidate 5 - Sun Oct 21
- Fixed contact list thread duplication issue
- Added sharing from other apps - All text based data (notes, schedules, browser links, etc)
- Preparation for final release
Release Candidate 4 - Sat Oct 20
- Fixed bug in Update Service which could have prevented Cloud ID Updates
- Added option to choose contact selection style. You can now use the very simple choose from contacts, or the text entry style.
- Fixed limiting device accounts for only gmail.com, and now also supports googlemail.com
Release Candidate 3 - Fri Oct 19 @ 10:55pm EST (Updated - Version #5)
- Version 5 - Fixed contact separation bug
- Version 5 - Fixed contact duplication bug
- Version 4 - Fixed phone number validation bug
- Version 3 - Fixed crash when direct phone number had spaces after hitting send message
- Version 3 - Added Dark Theme layouts for New Message (Including different colours for bad/good phone number, and contact results)
- Version 3 - Fixed crash when resuming New Message after rotating or sleeping.
- Version 2 - Fixed bug where Exit would have to be repeated when opened from notification
- Fixed handling of messages with phone number only (not in contacts)
- Added New Message handler - Auto completes contact entry and supports direct phone numbers
- Various bug fixes for stability
- Fixed Contact list not updating on message
Release Candidate - Thurs Oct 18
- Fixed many stability issues which caused hard to find crashes
- Fixed Phone issue which caused SMS to stop sending/receiving after some time
- Fixed window states - App will not show "spare" views.
- Fixed notifications opening to wrong contact
- Added unread message count - Notification Icon changes to show the value of unread numbers (1~9, 9+)
- Added unread indicator on Contact list view (Unread senders will have bolded names, and show number of unread)
- Added delete conversation (long press on a contact to delete the message history)
- Added delete message (long click on a specific message to delete the message)
Beta Build 6 - Wed Oct 17
- Added Notification sound selection
- Changed Primary account to a list of device accounts (Much easier)
- Message View now shows sender Contact Photo (Your contact photo should now show)
- Sent Messages now align right next to the sender contact photo
- Moved server infrastructure to new scaling processor (Up until now the routing process was CSV based, and would not scale). Processing times on my end are now in the 100th of a second area.
- Added more padding to separate message text box from messages
- Send Message Button slightly bigger.
- Should more reliably update both Contact view and message view on messages
Beta Build 5 - Tues Oct 16 #2
- New Icon!
- Fixed refresh of messages on send
- Fixed Text Entry field size
- Fixed Send Button in Dark Theme
- Fixed Send Button Scaling
- Removed notification sound on Phone when sending outgoing SMS from tablet
- Fixed contact picker - Now shows contacts with phone numbers
- Alert user when selected contact number is not sms capable (Work number, etc)
Beta Build 4 - Tues Oct 16
- Temporily added Debug Menu Option - This will show you the detected Device Hash, Account (Not sent to server), and GCMID. If your not syncing, check the GCMID in debug, if blank, exit the app and try again (and let me know!)
- Fixed Server side bug which prevented syncing
- Added crash handler to send me crash reports during the testing phase
- Fixed alignment on Message view sent messages
- Increased SMS Priority to try and get around SMS apps that do not like to share.
- Unknown contacts will show phone number as their name.
Beta Build 3 - Mon Oct 15 - Build #2 - Updated Build Sent to Testers (Thanks guys!)
Bug Fixes + New Features
- Build #2 - Fixed Cloud ID Assignment (I wasn't waiting long enough for Google to assign them!)
- Build #2 - Reverted to old contact picker. Much more reliable this way, solves most of the problems.
- New Notification Settings
- Added Persistent Notification Setting
- Added Notification Sound Setting
- Added Notification Vibrate Setting
- Fixed Cloud Sync loss after a few hours
- Added Setting to list detected account (Just displayed on your device, not transferred) - This allows you to set the correct account if you have multiple accounts on a tablet
- Contact and Messages lists now update on incoming message!
- Message text allows links to be clickable
- Text input field now automatically capitalizes the first word in a sentence
- Fixed all communications bugs on SIM tablets with no SIM card (Wifi)
- Fixed issues on Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1
- (There are more, just can't remember now)
Beta Build 2 - Sun Oct 14 - Sent out updates to existing testers, and send PMs to a few others, thanks!
Bug Fixes + New Features
- Now supports Android 2.2 through 4.1 (was previously 2.3 and up)
- Added Settings Menu
- Added Theme Selection (Light, Dark)
- Added Start on Boot (Opens in notification tray)
- Added Force Tablet for some tablets being detected as phone
- Fixed detection of some tablets
- Fixed a few communications bugs
- Message list is updated on sending a message
Beta Build 1 - Fri Oct 12
- Initial Release!
Current Bugs
Required Permissions
- Internet - (Needed to connect to the Internet!)
- Send SMS / Receive SMS (These are used on the phone side to send/receive messages)
- Get Account (This is used to read your gmail address assigned to your device. I never actually send this email, simply make a secure hash of the account to match against the Google Cloud Messaging IDs for your tablet/phone)
- Wake Lock (This is required for Google Cloud Messaging)
- Receive SMS (This is required to capture SMS messages to send to your tablet)
- Vibrate (If your tablet supports it, I can vibrate/light LED, make sound just as your phone does on SMS - This will become a setting)
- Read Contacts (This is used on the tablet to show the contact photo / name rather than just the phone number of the recipient/sender. This data is never stored anywhere).
- Write SMS (This is used on the phone to add your messages to the stock SMS database to keep conversations properly synced)
- Receive Boot Completed (This is used to automatically start on boot if enabled in Settings)
Using Go SMS? Do this:
- In Go SMS, Under 'Menu -> Settings -> Receive Settings' - Uncheck the box that says 'Disable other message notification'
- If still not receiving forwarding messages, reboot.
Any comments, questions, or feedback?
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