Question

I’m Building an application that will read every new sms from inbox
and it is from specific sender, my app will read the content and if it has some specific content then it will do some action.

Goals :

1. I want to get new message sender’s name or number (say my specific sender don’t show number it is something like TM-Google , TM-MyGinger mostly telemarketting Senders)

2. If it is from one for whom i was searching then i want to read the content of message.
The else is my part.
Please provide some idea or code snippet.

Answer 1

Create a SMS receiver

    public class SMSReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver {
    public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {

        Bundle bundle = intent.getExtras();

        if (bundle != null) {
                Object[] pdusObj = (Object[]) bundle.get("pdus");
                SmsMessage[] messages = new SmsMessage[pdusObj.length];

                // getting SMS information from Pdu.
                for (int i = 0; i < pdusObj.length; i++) {
                        messages[i] = SmsMessage.createFromPdu((byte[]) pdusObj[i]);
                }

                for (SmsMessage currentMessage : messages) {
                    // currentMessage.getDisplayOriginatingAddress()   has sender's phone number
                    // currentMessage.getDisplayMessageBody()     has the actual message
            }
        }
    }
}

You can read inbox using following code:

Uri mSmsinboxQueryUri = Uri.parse("content://sms");
            Cursor cursor1 = getContentResolver().query(
                    mSmsinboxQueryUri,
                    new String[] { "_id", "thread_id", "address", "person", "date",
                            "body", "type" }, null, null, null);
             startManagingCursor(cursor1);
            String[] columns = new String[] { "address", "person", "date", "body",
                    "type" };
            if (cursor1.getCount() > 0) {
                String count = Integer.toString(cursor1.getCount());
                Log.e("Count",count);
                while (cursor1.moveToNext()) {
                    String address = cursor1.getString(cursor1
                            .getColumnIndex(columns[0]));
                    String name = cursor1.getString(cursor1
                            .getColumnIndex(columns[1]));
                    String date = cursor1.getString(cursor1
                            .getColumnIndex(columns[2]));
                    String msg = cursor1.getString(cursor1
                            .getColumnIndex(columns[3]));
                    String type = cursor1.getString(cursor1
                            .getColumnIndex(columns[4]));
                    et.setText( et.getText() + "Address:" + address + "\n"
                            + "Name:" + name + "\n"
                            + "Date:" + date + "\n"
                            + "MSG:" + msg + "\n"
                            + "type:" + type + "\n"
                            );



               }
           }

Add flowing to manifest

<receiver android:name="SMSReceiver" android:enabled="true">
    <intent-filter>
       <action android:name="android.provider.Telephony.SMS_RECEIVED" />
    </intent-filter>
  </receiver>

and add permission for READ_SMS and RECEIVE_SMS