Send SMS with Twilio in Swift

tux_tina

I try to use Twilio as an service provider but they have no examples for Swift that I understand. My task is to send SMS to a number using Twilio API with Swift. I have a Twilio.com account - and that one is working. But how do I do this in Swift code in a easy manner. Twilio does provide a library - but that is meant for C# not for Swift (and using a bridging header seems too complicated!) Here is the C# example, I need a easy Swift example. //...

Originally asked by Knut_Norway on Stack Exchange (stackoverflow) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

Twilio evangelist here. To send a text message from Swift you can just make a request directly to Twilios REST API. That said, I would not recommend doing this from an iOS app (or any other client app) as it requires you to embed your Twilio account credentials in the app, which is dangerous. I would instead recommend sending the SMS from a server side application. If you do want to send the message from your app, there are a couple of Swift libraries I know of that simplify making HTTP requests: Alamofire - from Mattt Thompson, creator of AFNetworking - used in the example here: https://www.twilio.com/blog/2016/11/how-to-send-an-sms-from-ios-in-swift.html SwiftRequest - from Ricky Robinett...

Full answer by Devin Rader: https://stackoverflow.stackexchange.com/a/27398922 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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