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
