Xamarin.Essentials provides developers with cross-platform APIs for their mobile applications. On this week's Xamarin.Essential API of the week we take a look at the SMS API enabling your app to open the default SMS application with an optional specified message to send to a recipient.

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*   [Xamarin.Essentials Documentation](https://aka.ms/motz-essentials)
*   [Xamarin.Essentials Getting Started Documentation](https://aka.ms/motz-essentials-getstarted)
*   [SMS API Documentation](https://aka.ms/motz-essentials-sms)
*   [Source Code](https://aka.ms/xamarincompass)
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