Simulating SMS on Android Devices when developing

Question

Is there a way to send an SMS from te DDMS in Eclipse to my Android phone. The emulator control is disabled when I\'m running my physical phone. I can only sent a SMS to the emu

Answer 1

The following few steps should get you up into simulating an incoming sms in an Android Emulator.

Requirements:

1.Make sure that you have the telnet client in you PC whether it is Windows or Linux.Google around on how to install one if it is not already installed on your PC.

Steps To Emulating an incoming sms

(a) open you CMD prompt and Enter the command:

telnet

For now I am Demonstrating using Windows 7 ,so you will get

Welcome to Microsoft Telnet Client

Escape Character is 'CTRL+]'

Microsoft Telnet>

(b)Assuming that your Emulator is already started.And while still on the CMD,type:

 o localhost 5554

this should open a connection to the emulator.

(c)To Emulate an incoming sms from a number say 0123456 type:

sms send 0123456 Your Message

You should be able to get the message in your android emulator inbox.Thats all Folks.