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.

It seems like there's a content provider for this, but I can't find documentation for it - anyone know where that is?

Thanks

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Ok I found a way to get the sms inbox provider, and I just dumped all the column names in that provider, looks like this:

Uri uriSms = Uri.parse("content://sms/inbox"); Cursor c = context.getContentResolver().query(uriSms, null,null,null,null);   // column names for above provider: 0: _id 1: thread_id 2: address 3: person 4: date 5: protocol 6: read    7: status 8: type 9: reply_path_present 10: subject 11: body 12: service_center 13: locked 

I'm just piecing this together from random threads I find around the net, I'm really wondering where this is all documented (if at all)?

Thanks again

Answer 1

In addition to those u can see the list of fields in sms content provider by using following code:

private void displaySmsLog() {     Uri allMessages = Uri.parse("content://sms/");      //Cursor cursor = managedQuery(allMessages, null, null, null, null); Both are same     Cursor cursor = this.getContentResolver().query(allMessages, null,             null, null, null);      while (cursor.moveToNext()) {         for (int i = 0; i < cursor.getColumnCount(); i++) {             Log.d(cursor.getColumnName(i) + "", cursor.getString(i) + "");         }         Log.d("One row finished",                 "**************************************************");     }  }