11 July 2008

SMS Scheduler enables you to define multiple messages, save and schedule them separately

You would like to send an SMS when the price for sending it is the lowest or maybe free of charge? You need to send a birthday or season's greetings and don't want to forget about it or maybe you just need to send SMS to person in a different time zone in times when he/she doesn't need to wake up to read it?

Than look no further, SMSScheduler is the simple but yet powerful SMS scheduler for S60 devices developed in Python that lets you handle your message correspondence in a timely manner, it enables you to define multiple SMS messages to multiple recipients, save and schedule them separately.

You can prepare all your SMS messages, notifications, reminders and greetings in advance and schedule one-time or recurring delivery. You do not need to initiate a Send/Receive in order to send the scheduled messages but you must of course keep application running in background otherwise it will not be able to send messages automatically at the specified time.

No more reminders needed, never miss birthdays, anniversaries, and holiday greetings, just schedule repetitive messages at daily, weekly, monthly or even yearly intervals.

Application is pretty small, easy to install and easy to handle. Each time you add a new SMS message, you will be able to choose a particular date, time, recurrence, recipient and leave to your phone to send message for you. The SMS will be sent automatically at the specified time without any user interaction!

This is the really handy application but there is a plenty of room for improvements and first of all it definitely need a better built in SMS editor and possibility to exit the application without need to leave it active in the background constantly.

Changelog v 1.06:

• Uses latest Python 1.4.4
• Uses latest Ensymble to create the SIS file
• Replaced the form with a series of popup boxes for message/date/time/repeat/recipients, the form was a pain in the arse and had this PyS60 save/back funtionality which isn't really appropriate for this application
• Auto-starts on reboot

Known issues:

• The right 'Exit' soft-key cannot be renamed so I've disabled it's functionality and display a message box detailing how to send the app to the background. To ACTUALLY exit the application select the 'Exit application' item in the left soft-key menu.
• There is no way to disable the start on reboot functionality.
  The icon cannot be dynamically resized (even though it's a vector based SVG!)
• e32db.format_time has changed to return floating point precision on the milliseconds so the string seen in the idle list screen looks kinda weird... not sure how to resolve this...