SMS message to AIM screen name

Question

Is it possible to send a SMS text message to a AIM screen name? I am trying to do this in my Android application.

Answer 1

There's no Android API that will take a phone number, an SMS message, and somehow convert that SMS into an AIM that magically goes to the right person- They're different technologies, with different addressing schemes (number vs aol screen name). It's sort of like asking if you can call a website :)

However, there is at least one service that lets you use SMS as an in-between step to send AIM messeges- You send them to the SMS address, and the server listening to that address picks up the AIM name and forwards it to the correct location from there.