Delete SMS after displaying

Question

Hi All,

I am writing my own SMS application that will display a toast of my message once it arrive. Now is it possible to delete the message after the display of the toast, so that it will not go into the native SMS application?

Thanks In Advance, Perumal

Answer 1

Use BroadcastReceiver to trap the incoming SMS. Read the message body and store it somewhere or show it in the Toast you mentioned.

use the following code to delete SMS's in your inbox. It will be deleted immidiately .

ContentResolver cr = _context.getContentResolver();

   Uri inbox = Uri.parse( "content://sms/inbox" );
   Cursor cursor = cr.query(
        inbox,
        new String[] { "_id", "thread_id", "body" },
        null,
        null,
        null);do {        
        String body = cursor.getString( 2 );            
        long thread_id = cursor.getLong( 1 );
        Uri thread = Uri.parse( "content://sms/conversations/" + thread_id );
        cr.delete( thread, null, null );
        count++;

    } while ( cursor.moveToNext() );