Using new Telephony content provider to read SMS

Question

According to the 4.4 SMS APIs, the new version provides functionality to:

allow apps to read and write SMS and MMS messages on the device

Answer 1

I did it like the following. Create SMSObject:

public class SMSObject {
  private String _id;
  private String _address;
  private String _msg;
  private String _readState; // "0" for have not read sms and "1" for have
                            // read sms
  private String _time;
  private String _folderName;

  //+ getter and setter methods and 

  @Override
  public String toString() {
    return "SMSObject [_id=" + _id + ", _address=" + _address + ", _msg="
            + _msg + ", _readState=" + _readState + ", _time=" + _time
            + ", _folderName=" + _folderName + "]";
}

And here a simple function, which simply logs all current SMS-Objects

private void readSMS() {
    List lstSms = new ArrayList();
    SMSObject objSms = new SMSObject();
    Uri message = Uri.parse("content://sms/");
    ContentResolver cr = this.getContentResolver();

    Cursor c = cr.query(message, null, null, null, null);
    // this.startManagingCursor(c);
    int totalSMS = c.getCount();
    Log.d("SMS Count->", "" + totalSMS);
    if (c.moveToFirst()) {
        for (int i = 0; i < totalSMS; i++) {

            objSms = new SMSObject();
            objSms.setId(c.getString(c.getColumnIndexOrThrow("_id")));
            objSms.setAddress(c.getString(c
                    .getColumnIndexOrThrow("address")));
            objSms.setMsg(c.getString(c.getColumnIndexOrThrow("body")));
            objSms.setReadState(c.getString(c.getColumnIndex("read")));
            objSms.setTime(c.getString(c.getColumnIndexOrThrow("date")));
            if (c.getString(c.getColumnIndexOrThrow("type")).contains("1")) {
                objSms.setFolderName("inbox");
            } else {
                objSms.setFolderName("sent");
            }

            lstSms.add(objSms);

            Log.d("SMS at " + i, objSms.toString());

            c.moveToNext();
        }
    }
    // else {
    // throw new RuntimeException("You have no SMS");
    // }
    c.close();

    // return lstSms;

}