SMSManager is Deprecated

Question

i have included this file in a project of android 2.3.3

import android.telephony.gsm.SmsManager;

It shows the code as follows(strikes out the smsmanager text)
import android.telephony.gsm.SmsManager;
and a shows message "SmsManager is deprecated"
how can i fix this?

Answer 1

According to the doc here :

This class is deprecated. Replaced by android.telephony.SmsManager that supports both GSM and CDMA

Since API 4.

Answer 2

android.telephony.gsm.SmsManager is deprecated and was replaced by android.telephony.SmsManager that supports both GSM and CDMA. android.telephony.SmsManager is available for API level 4 and up (a.k.a Android 1.6). See the docs. You can use Android.os.Build.Version to figure out which to use on a given platform