I am building an SMS messaging app, with a list of phone numbers in an array which I would like to send to. When I press the SEND button in the app, the message that I type would be sent to all the numbers in that array.
I am using a for loop to run through the numbers and sending the same message to each of them:
for (i=0; i<names.length; i++) {
phoneNo = names[i][3];
sendMessage(phoneNo, message);
}
private void sendMessage(String phoneNo, String message) {
try {
SmsManager smsManager = SmsManager.getDefault();
smsManager.sendTextMessage(phoneNo, null, message, null, null);
Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "SMS sent", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
}
catch (Exception e) {
Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "SMS failed. Please try again!", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
This works perfectly, but now, I want to introduce a one-second delay between sending each message, so I've modified my for loop as follows:
Handler handler1 = new Handler();
for (i=0; i<names.length; i++) {
handler1.postDelayed(new Runnable() {
@Override
public void run() {
phoneNo = names[i][3];
sendMessage(phoneNo, message);
}
}, 1000);
}
This is syntactically correct, but my app crashes whenever I try to send a message now. Can somebody please point out what I've done wrong?
Many thanks:-)