Can I send an SMS from a service?
<p>So i want to write a PoC app for an idea that I have. One of the feature that my app would do is send a text message (and perhaps receive delivery notification). Its not going to be an SMS app. Just a service which might run in the background and sends sms on some particular interval, unattended (of course with user consent).</p>

<p>i remember in some of android api release, Google took the decision that you can only send receive sms if you have selected your app to be "default" sms app ? I don't remember exactly.</p>

<p>So the question is, can my app (as a service) send an sms and receive delivery notification while not being an SMS app ?</p>

<p>Whenever I try to Google this question, I find <em>how to send sms</em> example with <code>SMSManager</code> and the code to send the sms but no where i could find this answer. </p>