<li><a href="#sending">Sending SMS or MMS Messages</a>
<p>Create and send a message, and add attachments to MMS messages.</p></li>
</ul>
+ <h2 id="prerequisites" name="prerequisites">Prerequisites</h2>
+<p>To use the messages API, the application has to request permission by adding the corresponding privileges to the tizen-manifest.xml file.
+There are two privileges - message.read to fetch messages and message.write to send messages respectively.
+</p>
+<pre class="prettyprint">
+<privileges>
+ <privilege>http://tizen.org/privilege/message.read</privilege>
+ <privilege>http://tizen.org/privilege/message.write</privilege>
+</privileges>
+</pre>
<h2 id="init" name="init">Initializing the Messages Service</h2>