How to Fetch Inbox SMS programatically

Introduction

In this tutorial, i just have fetched SMS from the Inbox and displayed inside the ListView. SMS is fetched inside the ArrayList and then using this arraylist, i have created ArrayAdapter. Now just set this adapter to the ListView, thats it.

Now, We can fetch the SMS from Inbox by making query to SMS content resolver by using:

Uri uriSms = Uri.parse("content://sms/inbox");
Cursor cursor = getContentResolver().query(uriSms, new String[]{"_id", "address", "date", "body"},null,null,null);

Note: Don’t forget to add READ_SMS permission inside the AndroidManifest.xml file.

package com.pareshmayani.smsinbox;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.database.Cursor;
import android.net.Uri;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.widget.ArrayAdapter;
import android.widget.ListView;

/**
 * @author Paresh N. Mayani
 * (w): http://www.technotalkative.com/
 */
public class SMSInboxActivity extends Activity {
    /** Called when the activity is first created. */
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);

        ListView lViewSMS = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.listViewSMS);

        if(fetchInbox()!=null)
        {
         ArrayAdapter adapter = new ArrayAdapter(this, android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1, fetchInbox());
         lViewSMS.setAdapter(adapter);
        }
    }

    public ArrayList fetchInbox()
    {
     ArrayList sms = new ArrayList();

     Uri uriSms = Uri.parse("content://sms/inbox");
     Cursor cursor = getContentResolver().query(uriSms, new String[]{"_id", "address", "date", "body"},null,null,null);

     cursor.moveToFirst();
     while  (cursor.moveToNext())
     {
         String address = cursor.getString(1);
         String body = cursor.getString(3);

         System.out.println("======> Mobile number => "+address);
         System.out.println("=====> SMS Text => "+body);

         sms.add("Address=> "+address+"n SMS => "+body);
     }
     return sms;

    }
}