Acces to SMS messages using Xamarin.Android

Issue

I want to have acces to all the SMS messages available on the Android phone and store them in a SQLITE data base , but the only solution found was using BroadcastReceiver (which is not what i am looking for).

Solution

I found the solution, using ContentResolver which returns a cursor of type ICursor.

Here is the code :

  Android.Database.ICursor cursor = ContentResolver.Query(uri, null, null, null,null);
  
  StringBuilder stri = new StringBuilder("");
        while(cursor.MoveToNext())
        {
            stri.Append(cursor.GetString(0));
            //Do what ever you want 
        }
         

Note that:

  uri =Android.Net.Uri.Parse("content://sms/inbox")

Answered By - Riad Rekab