Incoming SMS details

Using Android API's user can read incoming SMS message content programmatically.

To get SMS content first add below user permission in manifest file:

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

Then call below method from activity class:

public StringBuffer getIncomingSMSContent() {

ContentResolver contentResolver = getContentResolver();

Uri uri = Uri.parse("content://sms/inbox/");

StringBuffer messagedata = new StringBuffer();

int count = 0;

Cursor cursor = contentResolver.query(uri, null, null, null, null);

if (cursor.getCount() != 0) {

if (cursor.moveToFirst()) {

do {

messagedata.append("Incoming message count: " + (count +1) + "\n");

for (int m = 0; m < cursor.getColumnCount(); m++) {

if (cursor.getColumnName(m).equalsIgnoreCase("address")

|| cursor.getColumnName(m).equalsIgnoreCase("date")

|| cursor.getColumnName(m).equalsIgnoreCase("body")

|| cursor.getColumnName(m).equalsIgnoreCase("type"))

{

messagedata.append(cursor.getColumnName(m) + "  : "

+ cursor.getString(m));

messagedata.append("\n");

}

}

messagedata.append("\n");

count++;

} while (cursor.moveToNext());

}

}

cursor.close();

cursor = null;

return messagedata;

}

This method will return list of all incoming message content from inbox.

Here is the result :

In above result screen, 

address : mobile number from which device received message

date : message received time in milliseconds

type : message type incoming/outgoing. Type 1 indicates as incoming message type

body : message text