Reading Inbox SMS Android

In this blog post you can learn on how to read an sms from inbox using android source code below.

1. Create the following java class for reading the inbox sms.

import android.app.Activity;

import android.database.Cursor;

import android.net.Uri;

import android.os.Bundle;

import android.widget.TextView;

public class SMSRead extends Activity {

  @Override

  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

      super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

      TextView view = new TextView(this);

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

      Cursor cur = getContentResolver().query(uriSMSURI, null, null, null,null);

      String sms = "";

      while (cur.moveToNext()) {

          sms += "From :" + cur.getString(2) + " : " + cur.getString(11)+"\n";         

      }

      view.setText(sms);

      setContentView(view);

  }

}

2. Add Uses Permission to the android manifest xml file.

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