Android - receiving long SMS (multipart)

Question

I have an application, which has to listen for specific SMS. So far easy.

But when I receive the message, it\'s multipart. Is there a proper way to receive the SMS

Answer 1

Yes you should concatenate the SMS by hand, but obviously you don't want to be starting up a new activity for each message segment.

I suggest setting your Activity's launchMode attribute to singleTask or singleInstance so that that doesn't happen.

Alternatively have your SMS's received by a Service, which will fire up a new Activity only once it has a complete message.