Want to get started building text messaging apps on Tropo? Want to receive inbound SMS messages from customers and users? Or want to use texting as an easy way to do outbound notification?

Of all the channels Tropo supports, we’ve seen a great amount of interest in using text messaging… and why not? It’s simple to do with Tropo and supported internationally, too!

We’ve written a good bit about SMS apps in the past so I thought I’d show you the path to become an SMS expert with Tropo:

FIRST STEPS

You can start with these posts:

• How to Send & Receive SMS Text Messages Using Tropo and Ruby – Justin Dupree shows you “The 7 Steps to Text Success” and walks you through exactly how you set up a Tropo app to receive inbound SMS messages. Yes, he uses the Ruby language for his example, but you could equally use JavaScript, PHP, Python or Groovy. The code is actually almost identical.
• Simple JavaScript SMS API: Text Messaging with Tropo – John Higgins also walks through how to get started with text messaging with Tropo – but using JavaScript (and with handy red arrows on his screenshots).
• How-To: Sending an outbound SMS from Tropo – John Dyer explains the simple process of connecting an “outbound token” to your application and sending out SMS messages.

That’s it! Just create a (free) Tropo account and start creating SMS-enabled apps!

DIVING DEEPER

With the basics of adding SMS to a Tropo app in mind, you can grab any of these tutorial or sample applications as an app for you to try out:

• Tropo Tutorials
• Tropo Sample Applications

All the sample apps are also available from our Github account and are available for JavaScript, Ruby, PHP, Python or Groovy.

We’ve also written a range of other blog posts related to SMS. One you may want to check out is “Get a text message when someone calls your app” which shows a very cool way to add one line of code to your app and start receiving SMS notifications every time someone connects to your application.

We’ll be writing more about SMS and showing more examples of SMS-enabled apps in the weeks ahead, so please do check back – or follow Tropo on Twitter or Facebook to stay up with what’s new.

Meanwhile, the VERY first step is to create your Tropo account and try it out now!

Note: Flickr photo courtesy of alexscarcella

Related posts:

1. Simple JavaScript SMS API: Text Messaging with Tropo
2. Messaging with Tropo
3. Get a text message when someone calls your app
4. Fetch the Initial Text of Any SMS or Instant Message on Tropo
5. How to Send & Receive SMS Text Messages Using Tropo and Ruby

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