Application to check mobile usage

[Simon771]

I'm currently using some provider for mobile services, and I have 5000sms, 5000min and 15GB data included. 

I can check my usage if I log in on website with my credentials and open correct tab.

 

Sadly this provider doesn't offer any application to check my usage etc. so I'm wondering how hard would it be, to create iOS application for iPhone, to check my usage with app instead of going on website.

I'm not even close to being programmer, but I think I understand the basic that needs to be done.

 

Program should connect to that website and fill username and password that I set in settings of the app, then program in the background check if log in was successfull, then redirect to correct page, and "download" or "read" data from display. It will then use those numbers and present it with some nice circles like this:

 

 

This is the picture of what another carrier in our country is using.

 

Would it be hard to make app like this?

[TheComputerdude]

2 minutes ago, Simon771 said:

I'm currently using some provider for mobile services, and I have 5000sms, 5000min and 15GB data included. 

I can check my usage if I log in on website with my credentials and open correct tab.

 

Sadly this provider doesn't offer any application to check my usage etc. so I'm wondering how hard would it be, to create iOS application for iPhone, to check my usage with app instead of going on website.

I'm not even close to being programmer, but I think I understand the basic that needs to be done.

 

Program should connect to that website and fill username and password that I set in settings of the app, then program in the background check if log in was successfull, then redirect to correct page, and "download" or "read" data from display. It will then use those numbers and present it with some nice circles like this:

 

 

This is the picture of what another carrier in our country is using.

 

Would it be hard to make app like this?

It would be pretty hard because you have to log all phone calls text and data exchanges. I don't think apple gives devs this level of acsess to the phone's hardware. In addition you have to pay 100 dollars to be an apple developer. Not worth it IMO

[Simon771]

7 minutes ago, TheComputerdude said:

It would be pretty hard because you have to log all phone calls text and data exchanges. I don't think apple gives devs this level of acsess to the phone's hardware. In addition you have to pay 100 dollars to be an apple developer. Not worth it IMO

I don't need to monitor that on my phone.

When I log in on website from my carrier I get those infos:

 

 

 

So everything is logged here, and I just need application to log on this website, read those numbers and display it in nice graphs or something.

 

But having to pay 100€, just to make application doesn't make it interesting for me.

I have to pay that price even if I don't want to officially publish app in store? What if I wanted to make application just for myself?

[Mira Yurizaki]

If you're pinging your carrier's website anyway, what's wrong with using the website via browser?

 

Otherwise, I'm going to assume the site works using standard HTTP GET and POST requests or whatnot to log in and grab info. You just need to know what URLs to poke at and what data (and in what format) they're expecting.