Read inbox messages of a particular number and display them in an activity

Question

I am trying to read messages from an inbox and display them in an activity. My activity contains a button and listview. When I click on the button, all messages from the inb

Answer 1

If you want to read messages only from particular number you need to somehow filter your data.

This example filter cursor and sort it.

      selection = "_id = " + 15;
      Cursor curSms = context.getContentResolver().query(smsUri, null, selection,   null, "date ASC");

Answer 2

add an if statement in your loop to match the selected number

String selectedNumber;
// copy the selected number to selectedNumber
do {
        if(cursor.getString( indexAddr ).equals(selectedNumber))
        {
           String str = "Sender: " + cursor.getString( indexAddr ) + "\n" +     cursor.getString( indexBody );
           smsList.add( str );
        }
    }
while( cursor.moveToNext() );

Here only the messages from number matching the selected number will be added to smsList. It is an old question but i hope it will be helpful for someone

Answer 3

try this code you get sms for pertucular number:

import java.util.ArrayList;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.ContentResolver;
import android.content.Context;
import android.database.Cursor;
import android.net.Uri;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.util.Log;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

    ArrayList<String> sms_id = new ArrayList<String>();
    ArrayList<String> sms_num = new ArrayList<String>();
    ArrayList<String> sms_Name = new ArrayList<String>();
    ArrayList<String> sms_dt = new ArrayList<String>();
    ArrayList<String> sms_body = new ArrayList<String>();

    // private ImageView imageView;

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        Uri myMessage = Uri.parse("content://sms/");
        ContentResolver cr = this.getContentResolver();
        Cursor c = cr.query(myMessage, new String[] { "_id", "address", "date",
                "body", "read" }, "address = '+9180009'", null, null);
        startManagingCursor(c);
        getSmsLogs(c, MainActivity.this);

    }

    public void getSmsLogs(Cursor c, Context con) {

        if (sms_num.size() > 0) {
            sms_id.clear();
            sms_num.clear();
            sms_Name.clear();
            sms_body.clear();
            sms_dt.clear();
        }
        try {
            if (c.moveToFirst()) {
                do {
                    if (c.getString(c.getColumnIndexOrThrow("address")) == null) {
                        c.moveToNext();
                        continue;
                    }
                    String Number = c.getString(
                            c.getColumnIndexOrThrow("address")).toString();
                    String _id = c.getString(c.getColumnIndexOrThrow("_id"))
                            .toString();
                    String dat = c.getString(c.getColumnIndexOrThrow("date"))
                            .toString();
                    String Body = c.getString(c.getColumnIndexOrThrow("body"))
                            .toString();
                    Log.e("Body-->", "" + Body);
                    sms_id.add(_id);
                    sms_num.add(Number);
                    sms_body.add(Body);
                } while (c.moveToNext());
            }
            c.close();
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

}

check log for sms body: you have to use below permission

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_SMS" />