I know since KitKat the code to start the SMS app is the following:
String default_sms_package_name = Telephony.Sms.getDefaultSmsPackage(context);
intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
intent.setType("text/plain");
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, body);
if (default_sms_package_name != null) intent.setPackage(default_sms_package_name);
But is there a way to preselect the SMS receiver like the SMS body?
Yes you can use ACTION_VIEW and set as many numbers as you want with address parameter as below.
Intent smsIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
smsIntent.setData(Uri.parse("smsto:"));
smsIntent.setType("vnd.android-dir/mms-sms");
smsIntent.putExtra("address" , new String("0123456789;3393993300"));
smsIntent.putExtra("sms_body" , "Test SMS to Angilla");
startActivity(smsIntent);
My requirement is that I have to open directly (without app chooser) messaging default android screen from my application with to,body and vcf attachment. I am using below two methods(Approach).
But in first approach, attachment is coming but multiple app chooser screen comes first then I have to choose Messaging app.
In second approach, default messaging app is opening but attachment (.vcf) file is not coming. Please advice. Below is the code.
Approach 1:
public static void sendMMS(Context ctx,String firstname,String send_to,String body,String vcard)
{
Intent sendIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
sendIntent.setType("text/x-vcard");
sendIntent.putExtra("address", send_to);
sendIntent.putExtra("sms_body", body);
File file1 = new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getAbsolutePath(),firstname+".vcf");
sendIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM,
Uri.fromFile(file1));
((Activity) ctx).startActivity(sendIntent);
}
Approach 2:
private void sendMMS()
{
Intent smsIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SENDTO);
smsIntent.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_DEFAULT);
smsIntent.setType("vnd.android-dir/mms-sms");
File file1 = new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getAbsolutePath(),"file.vcf");
smsIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM,
Uri.fromFile(file1));
smsIntent.setData(Uri.parse("sms:" + "XXXXXXXXXXX"));
startActivity(smsIntent);
}
I got the solution finally as below. The main issue was that 1. Add ClassName in Intent and
2. Use file path starting from file:// and put it into Uri.parse()
Intent sendIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
sendIntent.setClassName("com.android.mms", "com.android.mms.ui.ComposeMessageActivity");
sendIntent.putExtra("sms_body", body);
sendIntent.putExtra("address", send_to);
sendIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, Uri.parse("file:///sdcard/Test.vcf"));
sendIntent.setType("text/x-vcard");
startActivity(sendIntent);
I am trying to send an image via an MMS using the following code
Intent sendIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
sendIntent.putExtra("sms_body", "Hi there");
sendIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, Uri.parse(url));
sendIntent.setType("image/png");
It opens the Messaging apps and attach the message but it did not write the "sms_body" which is in my case "Hi there". Why?
try this:
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
intent.setClassName("com.android.mms", "com.android.mms.ui.ComposeMessageActivity");
intent.putExtra("subject", "subject");
intent.putExtra("sms_body", "Hi there");
intent.putExtra("address", "Phonenumber");
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, Uri.parse(url));
intent.setType("image/png");
startActivity(intent);
What seems to be working well is I just added EXTRA_TEXT (a solution which #yasserbn provided in a comment):
intent.putExtra(intent.EXTRA_TEXT, default_message);
in addition to:
intent.putExtra("sms_body", default_message);
And it seems to work whether it gets converted to multimedia message or sent as regular SMS.
I want to send an sms message and this code snippet works:
Intent sendIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
sendIntent.putExtra("sms_body", "Check out this Punchit app!
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.punchit");
sendIntent.setType("vnd.android-dir/mms-sms");
startActivity(sendIntent);
Now I want to preset the phone number and tried both of the following:
Intent sendIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
sendIntent.setData(Uri.parse("tel:9999999999" ));
and
sendIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_PHONE_NUMBER, "9999999999");
Neither of these two statements work, so what is the correct syntax for presetting a phone number?
test as follows:
Intent sendIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
sendIntent.putExtra("sms_body", "Hello1");
sendIntent.putExtra("address", "12345");
sendIntent.setType("vnd.android-dir/mms-sms")
I have a question about an intent...
I try to launch the sms app...
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MAIN);
intent.setType("vnd.android-dir/mms-sms");
int flags = Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK | Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_SINGLE_TOP |
Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP;
intent.setFlags(flags);
intent.setData(Uri.parse("content://sms/inbox"));
context.startActivity(intent);
so, you can see that I put too much things in my intent, but that's because I don't know how I can do...
Thank's
To start launch the sms activity all you need is this:
Intent sendIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
sendIntent.setData(Uri.parse("sms:"));
You can add extras to populate your own message and such like this
sendIntent.putExtra("sms_body", x);
then just startActivity with the intent.
startActivity(sendIntent);
Intent smsIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
smsIntent.setType("vnd.android-dir/mms-sms");
smsIntent.putExtra("address", "12125551212");
smsIntent.putExtra("sms_body","Body of Message");
startActivity(smsIntent);
If android version is Kitkat or above, users can change default sms application. This method will get default sms app and start default sms app.
private void sendSMS() {
if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.KITKAT) // At least KitKat
{
String defaultSmsPackageName = Telephony.Sms.getDefaultSmsPackage(this); // Need to change the build to API 19
Intent sendIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
sendIntent.setType("text/plain");
sendIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "text");
if (defaultSmsPackageName != null)// Can be null in case that there is no default, then the user would be able to choose
// any app that support this intent.
{
sendIntent.setPackage(defaultSmsPackageName);
}
startActivity(sendIntent);
}
else // For early versions, do what worked for you before.
{
Intent smsIntent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
smsIntent.setType("vnd.android-dir/mms-sms");
smsIntent.putExtra("address","phoneNumber");
smsIntent.putExtra("sms_body","message");
startActivity(smsIntent);
}
}
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MAIN);
intent.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_DEFAULT);
intent.setType("vnd.android-dir/mms-sms");
startActivity(intent);
That's all you need.
If you want to launch SMS Composing activity from some of your other activity and you also have to pass a phone number and SMS text, then use this code:
Uri sms_uri = Uri.parse("smsto:+92xxxxxxxx");
Intent sms_intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SENDTO, sms_uri);
sms_intent.putExtra("sms_body", "Good Morning ! how r U ?");
startActivity(sms_intent);
Note: here the sms_body and smsto: is keys for recognizing the text and phone no at SMS compose activity, so be careful here.
Here is the code that will open the SMS activity pre-populated with the phone number to
which the SMS has to be sent. This works fine on emulator as well as the device.
Intent smsIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SENDTO);
smsIntent.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_DEFAULT);
smsIntent.setType("vnd.android-dir/mms-sms");
smsIntent.setData(Uri.parse("sms:" + phoneNumber));
startActivity(smsIntent);
In kotlin this can be implemented easily as follows:
/**
* If android version is Kitkat or above, users can change default sms application.
* This method will get default sms app and start default sms app.
*/
private fun openSMS() {
val message = "message here"
val phone = "255754......." //255 Tanzania code.
val uri = Uri.parse("smsto:+$phone")
val intent = Intent(Intent.ACTION_SENDTO, uri)
with(intent) {
putExtra("address", "+$phone")
putExtra("sms_body", message)
}
when {
Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.KITKAT -> {
//Getting the default sms app.
val defaultSmsPackageName = Telephony.Sms.getDefaultSmsPackage(context)
// Can be null in case that there is no default, then the user would be able to choose
// any app that support this intent.
if (defaultSmsPackageName != null) intent.setPackage(defaultSmsPackageName)
startActivity(intent)
}
else -> startActivity(intent)
}
}
This is modified answer of #mustafasevgi
Use
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MAIN);
intent.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_LAUNCHER);
intent.setClassName("com.android.mms", "com.android.mms.ui.ConversationList");
I use:
Intent sendIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MAIN);
sendIntent.putExtra("sms_body", "text");
sendIntent.setType("vnd.android-dir/mms-sms");
startActivity(sendIntent);
Intent eventIntentMessage =getPackageManager()
.getLaunchIntentForPackage(Telephony.Sms.getDefaultSmsPackage(getApplicationContext));
startActivity(eventIntentMessage);
try {
Intent smsIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
smsIntent.setData(Uri.parse("smsto:" + Uri.encode(number)));
smsIntent.putExtra("address", number);
smsIntent.putExtra("sms_body", message);
PackageManager pm = activity.getPackageManager();
List<ResolveInfo> resInfo = pm.queryIntentActivities(smsIntent, 0);
for (int i = 0; i < resInfo.size(); i++) {
ResolveInfo ri = resInfo.get(i);
String packageName = ri.activityInfo.packageName;
if (packageName.contains("sms")) {
//Log.d("TAG", packageName + " : " + ri.activityInfo.name);
smsIntent.setComponent(new ComponentName(packageName, ri.activityInfo.name));
}
}
activity.startActivity(smsIntent);
} catch (Exception e) {
// Handle Error
}
Best way of doing this.
You can open default sms App and pass details as below :
Note : If u want to send to many numbers, separate each number with ";" inside string
String mblNumVar = "9876543210;9123456789";
Intent smsMsgAppVar = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
smsMsgAppVar.setData(Uri.parse("sms:" + mblNumVar));
smsMsgAppVar.putExtra("sms_body", "Hello Msg Tst Txt");
startActivity(smsMsgAppVar);
|Or| Use this function :
void openSmsMsgAppFnc(String mblNumVar, String smsMsgVar)
{
Intent smsMsgAppVar = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
smsMsgAppVar.setData(Uri.parse("sms:" + mblNumVar));
smsMsgAppVar.putExtra("sms_body", smsMsgVar);
startActivity(smsMsgAppVar);
}
Intent sendIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
//CHANGE YOUR MESSAGING ACTIVITY HERE IF REQUIRED
sendIntent.setClassName("com.android.mms", "com.android.mms.ui.ComposeMessageActivity");
sendIntent.putExtra("sms_body",msgbody);
sendIntent.putExtra("address",phonenumber);
//FOR MMS
sendIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, Uri.parse("file:///sdcard/mms.png"));
sendIntent.setType("image/png");
startActivity(sendIntent);
The best code that works with Default SMS app is.
Uri SMS_URI = Uri.parse("smsto:+92324502****"); //Replace the phone number
Intent sms = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW,SMS_URI);
sms.putExtra("sms_body","This is test message"); //Replace the message witha a vairable
startActivity(sms);
Compose SMS :
Uri smsUri = Uri.parse("tel:" + to);
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, smsUri);
intent.putExtra("address", to);
intent.putExtra("sms_body", message);
intent.setType("vnd.android-dir/mms-sms");
startActivity(intent);
The below code works on android 6.0.
It will open the search activity in the default messaging application with the conversations related to specific string provided.
Intent smsIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MAIN);
smsIntent.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_LAUNCHER);
smsIntent.setClassName("com.android.mms", "com.android.mms.ui.SearchActivity");
smsIntent.putExtra("intent_extra_data_key", "string_to_search_for");
startActivity(smsIntent);
You can start the search activity with an intent. This will open the search activity of the default messaging application.
Now, to show a list of specific conversations in the search activity, you can provide the search string as string extra with the key as
"intent_extra_data_key"
as is shown in the onCreate of this class
String searchStringParameter = getIntent().getStringExtra(SearchManager.QUERY);
if (searchStringParameter == null) {
searchStringParameter = getIntent().getStringExtra("intent_extra_data_key" /*SearchManager.SUGGEST_COLUMN_INTENT_EXTRA_DATA*/);
}
final String searchString = searchStringParameter != null ? searchStringParameter.trim() : searchStringParameter;
You can also pass the SENDER_ADDRESS of the sms as string extra, which will list out all the conversations with that specific sender address.
Check com.android.mms.ui.SearchActivity for more information
You can also check this answer
For Kotlin simply do that:
val messageIntent = Intent(Intent.ACTION_SENDTO, Uri.parse("smsto:03xxxxxxxxx"))
messageIntent.putExtra("sms_body", "Enter your body here")
startActivity(messageIntent)
on emulator this work for me
Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.fromParts("sms", number, null));
i.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
i.putExtra("sms_body", remindingReason);
startActivity(i);
Sms Intent :
Intent intent = new Intent("android.intent.action.VIEW");
/** creates an sms uri */
Uri data = Uri.parse("sms:");
intent.setData(data);
Either you can use this ,both are working fine on android above 4.4
Intent smsIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
smsIntent.setType("vnd.android-dir/mms-sms");
smsIntent.putExtra("address","9212107320");
smsIntent.putExtra("sms_body","Body of Message");
startActivity(smsIntent);
or
Intent smsIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
smsIntent.putExtra("sms_body","Body of Message");
smsIntent.setData(Uri.parse("sms:9212107320"));
startActivity(smsIntent);
You can use the following code snippet to achieve your goal:
Intent smsIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SENDTO);
smsIntent.setData(Uri.parse("smsto:"+model.getPhoneNo().trim()));
smsIntent.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_DEFAULT);
smsIntent.putExtra("sms_body","Hello this is dummy text");
startActivity(smsIntent);
If you don't want any text then remove the sms_body key.
Intent smsIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SENDTO);
smsIntent.setData(Uri.parse("smsto:"+shopkepperDataModel.getPhoneNo().trim()));
smsIntent.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_DEFAULT);
startActivity(smsIntent);
Works up to Android 11. (Supports all supported SDKs)
btnMessageTo.setOnClickListener {
val phoneNumber = "+8801234567890"
val intent = Intent("android.intent.action.SENDTO")
intent.data =
Uri.parse("smsto:" + Uri.encode(phoneNumber ))
startActivity(intent)
}