Messaging Plugin for Xamarin 4 released

I’ve just published the final build of the next major version of the Messaging Plugin to NuGet. I’ve added no new features since the last beta build.

Here is the complete list of changes for v4 of the plugin:

• Add support for sending SMS to multiple recipients
• Android+UWP: Add support for sending SMS without user interaction via the ISmsTask.CanSendSmsInBackground and ISmsTask.SendSmsInBackground
• Android: Add support for using FileProvider to add attachments using content Uri’s on Android Nougat and later
• Android: Add new Settings class to configure Android specific behavior when sending emails/making phone calls (see next bullets). Access from Android project only using CrossMessaging.Current.Settings() extension method.
  • Add new EmailSettings.UseStrictMode flag (default value false) to filter list of apps to only email apps and not other text messaging or social apps. Unfortunately adding attachments when using StrictMode does not seem to work, and is therefore currently not supported.
  • Add new PhoneSettings.AutoDial flag (default value false) to automatically phone the number instead of only showing the phone dialer with the number populated. Please note using this settings requires the android.permission.CALL_PHONE added to the manifest file.
• Breaking Change: Remove iOS Classic support
• Breaking Change: Remove Windows Phone 8.0 and 8.1 support
• Breaking Change: Reworked EmailMessageBuilder.WithAttachment platform API to provide consistent API

Full details of how to use the plugin can be found here. You can also find samples illustrating the use of the different features in the GitHub repo.