The swirly space of the iPhone MMS App
On Feb 29th, 2008 we made a new release of our native MMS application for the iPhone, SwirlyMMS, v0.3 available to the public.
Release notes
- It is now possible to receive MMS!
- Several bug fixes
- A few under-the-hood improvements
Limitations
Pretty rough GUI.
You can only send images, i.e. other media files like movies are not supported as for now.
We aim to address those limitations in future releases.
Support
For questions, support and tips & tricks please visit our forum! But please, read the installation and usage intructions here first before you post in the forum.
Installation
We have made this application available via Installer from the Ste Packaging community source.
For those of you who rather install manually you can download it from our private repository here at SwirlySpace. Just add swirlyspace.com/SwirlySpace.xml as a source in Installer. After installation you must RESTART your iPhone! Have fun! :-)
Usage
Configure MMS server and APN settings
The first thing to do is to configure your MMS server settings. Make sure you have the correct settings. If in doubt, contact your service provider.
In the MMS's Settings panel, enter the MMSC server setting in the MMSC field. If an optional port is required you append it after the MMSC server name separated by a colon ':'. For example,
MMSC: mmsc.svcprov.com:9231 or MMSC: 210.120.212.121:1221 or maybe just MMSC: mms
Oftentimes a proxy server is used, which you then must configure. You configure the Proxy server in the same way as the MMSC server described above.
Sometimes your service provider uses an APN specific for MMS, in addition to the ordinary APN for GPRS/EDGE. In such cases you must configure the APN settings specific to MMS.
We have put together a list of settings that people have reported to work. That list is available right here.
Other sources, which you may find useful for configuring your settings, can be found here and here.
You can specify the image resize options for your camera roll photos. The default resize option is medium which results in an image around 100kB. Notice that most service providers have a limitation for how large the image can be. 300KB seems to be a common maximum size.
Create and send an MMS
Just write down a text message or a title that gets sent with the image.
Select a recipent from your Address book.
Select an image from your Camera roll.
Finally, hit the send button to send the MMS. If the delivery was successful, you will hear a sound notification and an entry will be added to the sent MMS history list.
Receive MMS
If someone sends you an MMS you will get a notification that you have an MMS to fetch. You fetch this MMS simply by pressing the Fetch button. To view fetched MMSs you must, in this release, use a viewer, like MobilePreview and a file browser, e.g. MobileFinder and browse to the folder where the received images are stored: ~/Media/MMSFiles. These two applications are available via Installer.
That's about it!
Note
SwirlyMMS, v0.3 has been tested on firmware 1.1.3 and 1.1.4, and we have received success stories from people using other versions as well.
The Future
Now that we have the core features in place we can start to work on the major face lifting and adding useful features that makes the application intuitive to use.
We encourage you to support our efforts in improving this application by making a small donation!
The History
Jan 17th, 2008 we released a minor revision update v0.2.2 of our native MMS application for the iPhone, SwirlyMMS. You can still manually install the old version from here.
On Jan 10th, 2008 we released a minor revision update v0.2.1 of our native MMS application for the iPhone, SwirlyMMS.
Release notes
- improved error messages
- more robust handling of user input
- more robust communication handling
- an icon added to the statusbar which indicates the status of the MMS-APN
- a couple of bug fixes and a few tweaks
On Jan 2nd, 2008 we released version 0.2 of our native MMS application for the iPhone, SwirlyMMS.
v0.2 Release notes
- Renamed the app - was "MMS"
- Added support for an MMS-specific APN
- Handling of the responses from the network has been improved
- Added image resize options
- Enabled erasure of the sent history
- You can now send to an email address (note that it is still sent as an MMS and not as an email)
- A few bugs have been fixed
SwirlyMMS on the Internet
The Home Page (this page)
The Blog
Announcement1 and discussions
Announcement2 and discussions
Apple iPhone School has a nice article here
A nice article! (in swedish)
Feedback
Do not hesitate to contact us if you have a feature request and/or bug report or if you just want to say hi :-)
In that case, send an email to tommy at swirlyspace dotty com or to mats at swirlyspace dotty com.