How to use SMS content provider? Where are the docs?

Question

I\'d like to be able to read the system\'s SMS content provider. Basically I wanted to make an SMS messaging app, but it would only be useful if I could see past threads etc

Answer 1

public class main extends Activity {
    /** Called when the activity is first created. */
    String colName;
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);

        TextView tView = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.txtView);

        ContentResolver cr =getContentResolver();
        Uri uri = Uri.parse("content://sms/inbox");
        //Uri uri = Uri.parse("content://sms"); -- For all SMS
        //Uri uri = Uri.parse("content://sms/sent"); -- For all Sent Items
        //If you want to read the Sent SMS then change the URi to /sent.

        //In this example we are using Query as we have defined URi as above.
        //We have declared all the Column names we need in string array in the second parameter.
        //If you dont need all then leave null
        //Notice that we did not call managedQuery instead we used Query method of ContentResolver
        Cursor messagesCursor = cr.query(uri, new String[] { "_id","address","body","person"}, null,null, null);
        colName = "ColumnName" +"\n";
        colName = colName +  "--------------" + "\n";

        for(int loopCounter=0; loopCounter < messagesCursor.getColumnCount() ; loopCounter++)
        {
            colName = colName + messagesCursor.getColumnName(loopCounter) + "\n";

        }
        colName = colName +  "--------------" + "\n";

        if(messagesCursor.getCount() > 0)
        {
            while(messagesCursor.moveToNext())
            {
                colName = colName +  messagesCursor.getString(messagesCursor.getColumnIndex("body")) + "--";
                colName = colName +  messagesCursor.getString(messagesCursor.getColumnIndex("address")) + "\n";
            }
        }
        tView.setText(colName);


    }
}