Android – Is this possible to hide/Change the sender mobile number while sending sms in android

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How can we hide/change sender's mobile number while sending a SMS to a receiver.

For example if I send a sms to some number 1234567890, the receiver can receive my sms without knowing my number.

I had gone through in couple of Questions in Stack Overflow regarding this and it was mentioned that it is not possible to hide / change the sender number.

But I can see some apps in android market which hides the sender SMS number.

Note : In the app, they had clearly mentioned

Your network-operator must support hiding your caller ID.

I want to know if Network Providers in the US support this option or not. Also how can I find out my Network provider supports this and what API I have to use for hiding the sender's mobile number?

It would be awesome if I got any clue in this

Here are the existing questions

Here's the App Link

Best Answer

No.

But what you can do is use an SMS gateway which enables you to hide the callerID or which gives it a specific name. Just an alternative suggestion.

for example take that site, http://api.textmagic.com/ -> http://api.textmagic.com/https-api/textmagic-api-commands#send

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Android – How to close/hide the Android soft keyboard programmatically

You can force Android to hide the virtual keyboard using the InputMethodManager, calling hideSoftInputFromWindow, passing in the token of the window containing your focused view.

// Check if no view has focus:
View view = this.getCurrentFocus();
if (view != null) {  
    InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getWindowToken(), 0);
}

This will force the keyboard to be hidden in all situations. In some cases, you will want to pass in InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY as the second parameter to ensure you only hide the keyboard when the user didn't explicitly force it to appear (by holding down the menu).

Note: If you want to do this in Kotlin, use: context?.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager

Kotlin Syntax

// Only runs if there is a view that is currently focused
this.currentFocus?.let { view ->
    val imm = getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as? InputMethodManager
    imm?.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.windowToken, 0)
}

Android – change the sender number when sending sms

The simple answer is no.

Why??

well thats because the way SMS works. You never send your number, its the service provider which makes sure that senders number is sent.

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