Twilio Service Basics
An introduction to the Twilio APIs for sending and receiving SMS messages and voice calls.
What you'll learn
This course introduces the Twilio cloud services for integrating SMS and voice call behaviors into your applications. Topics covered include sending and receiving SMS messages, placing and receiving voice calls, interacting with the caller via keypresses and recording and playing back calls over the web.
Table of contents
- Introduction 1m
- Demo: Timeline voice verification 1m
- Outgoing call overview 2m
- Code: outgoing calls 1m
- Code: Sending confirmation code 2m
- Demo: Posting voice message 1m
- Incoming calls overview 1m
- The incoming call request 1m
- Recording overview 1m
- TwiML Record action 2m
- Post-Recording callback 1m
- Code: Incoming Calls 4m
- Code: Recording a call 1m
- Demo: Requiring a PIN code 2m
- TwiML Gather action 2m
- Code: Requiring a PIN code 2m
- Code: Completed callback 1m
- Code: Showing audio messages 2m
- Summary 1m
About the author
Robert spent nearly 10 years at Microsoft creating software that made it easier for everyone else to write software. Most recently Robert worked on Team Foundation Server on the Administration and Version Control teams. Currently Robert can be found working in the utilities sector on Smart Grid technologies. Robert fled the Minnesota winters and currently lives near Raleigh, NC with his wife Susan and four children, Cecilia, Brian, Ben and Evelyn. When not tackling technical challenges ... more