Question

I want to be able to extract text from received SMS’s.
I’m not sure whether I should use content providers or the sms message is included in the intent received by broadcast receiver.

I have a broadcast receiver waiting for SMS’s, and want to inspect the contents of the received message.

Thank you.

Answer 1

You can create SmsMessage instances from the Intent in your BroadcastReceiver as follows:

Bundle bundle = intent.getExtras();
Object[] pdus = (Object[])bundle.get("pdus");
SmsMessage[] messages = new SmsMessage[pdus.length];
for (int i = 0; i < pdus.length; i++) {
    messages[i] = SmsMessage.createFromPdu((byte[])pdus[i]);
    //messages[i].getMessageBody();
}