Receive SMS on Android

It is pretty easy to play with received  sms on Android, i will go step by step with code example of project.

step 1:

Create a android project and add one more class in project, let's assume for this example "MySMSReceiver.java", and extends this class with "BroadcastReceiver" there you will get one method "onReceive()", this method will active when you will receive any sms in this case, so you have to over-ride this method.

 

package imran.smsreceiver;

import android.content.BroadcastReceiver;

import android.content.Context;

import android.content.Intent;

import android.os.Bundle;

import android.telephony.SmsMessage;

import android.widget.Toast;

public class MySMSReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver {

    @Override

    public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {

         //---get the SMS message passed in the intent,---

        Bundle _bundle = intent.getExtras();  

       

        Toast.makeText(context, "A message came", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

        SmsMessage[] _msg = null;

        String str = "";           

        if (_bundle != null)

        {

            //---retrieve the SMS message received by pdus---

            Object[] _pdus = (Object[]) _bundle.get("pdus");

            _msg = new SmsMessage[_pdus.length];           

            for (int i=0; i<_msg.length; i++){

                _msg[i] = SmsMessage.createFromPdu((byte[])_pdus[i]);

                //---to get address of sender---

                str += "SMS from " + _msg[i].getOriginatingAddress();                    

                str += " :";

                //---to find message of sender---

                str += _msg[i].getMessageBody().toString();

                str += "\n";       

            }

            //---display the new SMS message with sender information.---

            Toast.makeText(context, str, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

    }

}

}//end of class

The above code will describe you  how to get sms sender information as well as sms body.
step 2:
In Manifest.xml you have to add <receiver> so  that MySMSReceiver class can be active when sms will come on you device.
below code of Manifest.xml will  describe how to add <receiver>.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
      package="imran.smsreceiver"
      android:versionCode="1"
      android:versionName="1.0">
    <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="7" />

    <application android:icon="@drawable/icon" android:label="@string/app_name">
        <activity android:name=".MainAcitity"
                  android:label="@string/app_name">
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>

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

    </application>
    <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="7" />
    <!-- PERMISSION -->
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.RECEIVE_SMS"/>

</manifest>  




you have to add permission to received sms in your project as in code above.



run the project and and test it , it will work for you.

Thanks for time.


Imran Ali