I am trying to read the last 14 days of android sms messages however it seems to take an eternity to read out all the messages from the Cursor so i limit it to the 1st 100 which dont seem to be in chronological order.
Any ideas of an efficient query of th esms data in order to pull the contact and the message only?
My code:
Uri uriSMSURISent = Uri.parse("content://sms/sent"); // get the sms data for sent Cursor curSent = getContentResolver().query(uriSMSURISent, null, null, null,null); int i=0; while (curSent.moveToNext() && i<100) { String from = curSent.getString(2); if(sentHashmap.containsKey(to)) { String cumulativeMessage = sentHashmap.get(to); sentHashmap.put(from, cumulativeMessage+ " " +curSent.getString(12)); } else sentHashmap.put(from, curSent.getString(12)); i++
I suggest you use the ContentResolver query to get only the records that interest you. you can select different columns, specify where clauses and even sort..
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/providers/content-provider-basics.html
// Queries the user dictionary and returns results mCursor = getContentResolver().query( UserDictionary.Words.CONTENT_URI, // The content URI of the words table mProjection, // The columns to return for each row mSelectionClause // Selection criteria mSelectionArgs, // Selection criteria mSortOrder); // The sort order for the returned rows Table 2 shows how the arguments to query(Uri,projection,selection,selectionArgs,sortOrder) match an SQL SELECT statement: // column names for above provider: 0: _id 1: thread_id 2: address 3: person 4: date 5: protocol 6: read 7: status 8: type 9: reply_path_present 10: subject 11: body 12: service_center 13: locked
Now you just need to query it with a good where clause:
long date = new Date(System.currentTimeMillis() - 14L * 24 * 3600 * 1000).getTime(); Cursor curSent = getContentResolver().query(uriSMSURISent, null,"date" + ">?",new String[]{""+date},"date DESC");
