SMS Compression

[danbjoseph]

The recent changes by Google to app permission affect this feature idea?

Removal of sending submissions via SMS in Collect

In October 2018, the Google Play Store announced that they would restrict the use of high risk or sensitive permissions, including the SEND_SMS permission that ODK Collect uses for automated/background sending of submissions over SMS. Over the last few months, we have spoken with our contacts at Google to see if Collect could be provided an exception given the humanitarian nature of our work. Despite much back and forth, an exception has not been granted. If we continue to use SEND_SMS, Collec…