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How to retrieve only the last message of every conversation including the locked message using Telephony.Sms?

I'm using the below code to retrieve a message from sms.
private List<String> getEveryLastMessages(){
List<String> listSms = new ArrayList<String>();
ContentResolver contentResolver = getActivity().getContentResolver();
Cursor c = contentResolver.query(Telephony.Sms.Inbox.CONTENT_URI, // Official CONTENT_URI from docs
new String[] { Telephony.Sms.Inbox.BODY }, // Select body text
null,
null,
Telephony.Sms.Inbox.DEFAULT_SORT_ORDER); // Default sort order
int totalSMS = c.getCount();
if (c.moveToFirst()) {
for (int i = 0; i < totalSMS; i++) {
listSms.add(c.getString(0));
listSms.add("\n");
c.moveToNext();
}
} else {
//Do something, no messages
}
c.close();
return listSms;
}
my problem is all of the message was retrieved and except the locked message.
what I'm trying to achieve is retrieve only the last message of
every conversation including the lock messages and populate it into my recyclerview adapater to show it as inbox.

If you want the last message in each conversation, regardless of whether it's sent or received, there's a handy built-in URI that you can use, in lieu of just grabbing everything and filtering it yourself.
Telephony.Sms.Conversations.CONTENT_URI (in the android.provider package) can be used in a ContentResolver query to retrieve a summary of the available conversations. For example:
Cursor c = contentResolver.query(Telephony.Sms.Conversations.CONTENT_URI,
null, null, null, null);
This query will return with three columns:
Telephony.Sms.Conversations.SNIPPET ("snippet")
Telephony.Sms.Conversations.MSG_COUNT ("msg_count")
Telephony.Sms.Conversations.THREAD_ID ("thread_id")
The SNIPPET column will be the most recent available message in that conversation.
Unfortunately, starting with Marshmallow (API level 21), any app that is not the default messaging app has access to only a restricted view of the SMS table. Such an app can only get messages with a Telephony.Sms.TYPE of MESSAGE_TYPE_INBOX or MESSAGE_TYPE_SENT. This means that you won't get MESSAGE_TYPE_FAILED, MESSAGE_TYPE_DRAFT, etc., unless your app is the current default app.
However, the Telephony.Sms.LOCKED column is a completely separate categorization from the TYPE column, and so should not figure into the restricted view. That is, you should be able to get locked messages, as long as they're sent or inbox, no matter if your app is the default or not. Of course, it's possible that a manufacturer has altered any of this described behavior, and you might need to account for that in your app.

Set customized vibration with incoming call in android

How can we set different vibration pattens for different contacts with incoming call ?
During my research and development I have refereed this :
1) How to provide customized vibration on specific incoming calls
2) How to change incoming call Vibration level when incoming call made?
But I didnt get success with this, while we can set different vibration petterns with different incoming call. its possible.
Example app :
1) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ac.vibration&hl=en
2) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bfc.morsecall
I hope that someone could give some advice on this issue. Comments on these two ways or other suggest are welcomed.

Create a custom vibrate pattern
First off, you will need to declare this permission in your manifest
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.VIBRATE"/>
Secondly, you will need to get an instance of the Vibrator class
Vibrator v = (Vibrator) getSystemService(Context.VIBRATOR_SERVICE);
Here's a suggestion on how you can set up a custom vibrate pattern
// Start without a delay
// Each element then alternates between vibrate, sleep, vibrate, sleep...
long[] pattern = {0, 100, 1000, 300, 200, 100, 500, 200, 100};
// The '-1' here means to vibrate once, as '-1' is out of bounds in the pattern array
v.vibrate(pattern, -1);
Reference here
Get contact names
As usual, declare permission
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_CONTACTS" />
Fetch the contacts using a ContentResolver query. This query fetches contact id, name and telephone number as String.
ContentResolver cr = getContentResolver();
Cursor cur = cr.query(ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI,
null, null, null, null);
if (cur.getCount() > 0) {
while (cur.moveToNext()) {
String id = cur.getString(cur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts._ID));
String name = cur.getString(cur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME));
if (Integer.parseInt(cur.getString(
cur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts.HAS_PHONE_NUMBER))) > 0) {
Cursor pCur = cr.query(
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI,
null,
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTACT_ID +" = ?",
new String[]{id}, null);
while (pCur.moveToNext()) {
String phoneNo = pCur.getString(pCur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER));
Toast.makeText(NativeContentProvider.this, "Name: " + name + ", Phone No: " + phoneNo, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}
pCur.close();
}
}
}
Reference here
Map the contact to a vibrate pattern
This mapping storage could be done in a couple of ways, depending on your choice of persistent storage implementation. As I see it, there's two obvious ways
Using an SQLite database, good tutorial here.
Using SharedPreferences
Also, the actual mapping could be done either by id -> pattern, name -> pattern or phone_nr -> pattern. Again, it's your choice of implementation design. Personally, I'd implement database support because it supports maintainability and scaleability, mapping phone_nr -> pattern.
For example, you implement two methods to set your mapping, and another method to get that mapping from a given phone_nr.
Set mapping
public void setPatternMapping(String phonr_nr, long[] pattern){
//Database call here. Example:
try{
database.open();
database.setPattern(phone_nr, pattern);
database.close();
}catch(SQLiteException e){
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
Get pattern
public long[] getPattern(String phone_nr){
//Database call here. Example:
long[] pattern = null;
try{
database.open();
pattern = database.setPattern(phone_nr, pattern);
database.close();
}catch(SQLiteException e){
e.printStackTrace();
}
return pattern;
}
Putting it all to use
To listen to an incoming call, one could implement a listener in the form of a BroadcastReceiver. The receiver class listens for CallStateChange, so when you get an incoming call, you will get a hold on the incoming call telephone number. Pretty handy if you mapped the telephone number to your vibrate pattern, as shown above.
In your AndroidManifest.xml:
<receiver android:name=".CallReceiver" >
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.PHONE_STATE" />
</intent-filter>
</receiver>
Receiver class
public class CallReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver {
#Override
public void onReceive(final Context context, Intent intent) {
TelephonyManager telephony = (TelephonyManager)context.getSystemService(Context.TELEPHONY_SERVICE);
telephony.listen(new PhoneStateListener(){
#Override
public void onCallStateChanged(int state, String incomingNumber) {
super.onCallStateChanged(state, incomingNumber);
//Make a database call, to get the vibrate pattern
long[] pattern = getPattern(incomingNumber);
//Set the phone to vibrate using that pattern, if there was a mapping
if(pattern != null){
Vibrator v = (Vibrator) getSystemService(Context.VIBRATOR_SERVICE);
v.vibrate(pattern, -1);
}
System.out.println("incomingNumber : "+incomingNumber);
}
},PhoneStateListener.LISTEN_CALL_STATE);
}
}
Edit
To turn off the vibration, you can use this code:
AudioManager am =(AudioManager)getSystemService(Context.AUDIO_SERVICE);
am.setRingerMode(AudioManager.RINGER_MODE_SILENT);
To enable it again:
am.setRingerMode(AudioManager.RINGER_MODE_NORMAL);

Android call log latest entry

I want to start an activity once i get a missed call.but iam unable to read the latest missed call entry from the call log, instead it reads the entry before the current one. iam reading it when phone state is idle.
Example: say there are two missed call entries one at 11:10 and other at 11:11. I get a missed call at 12:12, my activity needs to show missed calls obtained at 12:12,11:11,11:10. but rather it reads 11:11,11:10. Latest entry is missing. what should i do? I am using a service and reading call log, phone state.
Cursor c = getContentResolver().query(allCalls, null, null, null, order);
if (c.moveToFirst()) {
do{
// getting number,type,ack etc}
while (c.moveToNext()); }

You will need to listen for it using TelephonyManager and PhoneStateListener.
This code will show you how to do it:
if(lastStart == TelephonyManager.CALL_STATE_RINGING)
{
long now = System.currentTimeMillis();
long duration = (now-ringStartTime)/1000;
bindService.AddMissCallInfo(ringPhoneNumber, ringStartTime, duration);
Log.i(Constants.Tag,"service add miss call!");
}
Code taken from: http://code.google.com/p/android-miss-call/source/browse/trunk/src/com/call/DialPhoneStateListener.java?r=3

you can used like this.
c=mContext.getContentResolver().query(CallLog.Calls.CONTENT_URI, projection, null, null, CallLog.Calls._ID + " DESC");
if(c.getCount()!=0){
c.moveToFirst();
lastCallnumber = c.getString(0);
lastCallnumber=FormatNumber(lastCallnumber);
String type=c.getString(1);
String duration=c.getString(2);
String name=c.getString(3);
String id=c.getString(4);
System.out.println("CALLLLing:"+lastCallnumber+"Type:"+type+"\t id:"+id);
if(type.equals("3")){
//you can get last missedcall here
}
You can try it may be helpful for you.

Can't update event on phone's calendar from code

I'm attempting to update a calendar's event on my phone from my code, but context.getContentResolver().update keeps returning 0, and of course there are no changes made to the event when I look at it in the Calendar app.
I'm getting the event ID, start time, etc with context.getContentResolver().query, and I'm getting unique numbers like 431, 4, 233, etc, so I'm presuming the event IDs I'm using are real.
I understand the official way to do this is to go through Google's servers instead of using update(), but for my implementation it doesn't make sense to do it that way (or even in general, but I digress).
Am I doing something wrong, or am I trying to do something that Android simply isn't going to allow?
Uri updateEventUri = ContentUris.withAppendedId(Uri.parse("content://com.android.calendar/events"), id);
ContentValues cv = new ContentValues();
begin.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, arg0.getCurrentHour()); //begin is a java.util.Calendar object
begin.set(Calendar.MINUTE, arg0.getCurrentMinute());
//cv.put("_id", id);
//cv.put("title", "yeahyeahyeah!");
cv.put("dtstart", begin.getTimeInMillis());
int updatedrowcount = context.getContentResolver().update(updateEventUri, cv, null, null);
System.out.println("updated "+updatedrowcount+" rows with id "+id);
A related question was posted here with no replies https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5636350/update-android-calendar-event
Let me know if I can clarify anything; I would really appreciate any input you guys and dolls could provide!

i had tried a lot and finally ended up with solution (Unreliable though).. but works fine..
public static boolean updateCalendar(Context context,String cal_Id,String eventId)
{
try{
Uri CALENDAR_URI = Uri.parse(CAL_URI+"events");
Cursor c = context.getContentResolver().query(CALENDAR_URI, null, null, null, null);
String[] s = c.getColumnNames();
if (c.moveToFirst())
{
while (c.moveToNext())
{
String _id = c.getString(c.getColumnIndex("_id"));
String CalId = c.getString(c.getColumnIndex("calendar_id"));
if ((_id==null) && (CalId == null))
{
return false;
}
else
{
if (_id.equals(eventId) && CalId.equals(cal_Id))
{
Uri uri = ContentUris.withAppendedId(CALENDAR_URI, Integer.parseInt(_id));
context.getContentResolver().update(uri, null, null, null);// need to give your data here
return true;
}
}
}
}
}
finally
{
return true;
}
}
and finally i'm not sure if it works with every device.

Ok, so, the problem was that I was using different URIs between fetching the events and editing them. I used the code sample from here and was using the URI "content://com.android.calendar/instances/when" to fetch the events and display them on the screen. When I had made a change I was using "content://com.android.calendar/events" to edit by id as in my example above.
What I found, thanks to your response, ntc, was that the ids for events between the two URIs were different, and therefore I couldn't edit the events consistently with the information each was giving me. I was presuming the event ids I was getting were system ids and universal to the phone.
I guess I'll have to do some testing and see what hardware isn't compatible with this method. I am using an HTC Evo for testing and so far so good.

When querying the Instances table, use Instances.EVENT_ID to get the identifier for the event you want to edit, instead of Instances._ID.

How to check for a PARTICULAR SMS received through broadcast receivers in Android

I have developed an application which listens for all incoming SMS (using Broadcast Receiver) but I want to make my application activate an activity when it listen a Particular SMS (Ex. "LOCATIONRECQEST" sended from mobile no. say - 98765...).
So, basically I want to know is how to check the content of SMS (and do some task accordingly).
Also I want to get the number from which the SMS had been sent.
Any Help is awaited.
Thank you.

To read SMS content, you can use a ContentResolver :
// Uri of the SMS inbox
Uri uri = Uri.parse("content://sms/inbox");
// Query
Cursor c = getContentResolver().query(uri, null, null, null, null);
if (null != c && c.moveToFirst()) {
// For all SMS
// do {
String date = c.getString(c.getColumnIndex("date")); // Date (Timestamp)
String adress = c.getString(c.getColumnIndex("address")); // Phone number
String body = c.getString(c.getColumnIndex("body")); // Message
// For all SMS
// }while(c.moveToNext());
}
To find a String in your SMS content :
String body = "this is the text of the sms - code 25D45 - ...";
String stringToFind = "25D45";
// return the position of the "stringToFind"
if(body.indexOf(stringToFind) != -1) {
// your action here
}