Have you tried to use the destination number of the SMS, in order to find the Contact's name from the phone's Contact list?
On Mar 19, 4:36 pm, Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, I'm having a problem reading theSMSmessages from the device. > When acquiring a content provider for the URI content://sms/inbox- > everything is fine, I read the "person" column to find the foreign key > into the people table and I can ultimately reach the contact and their > name. > > However, I also want to traverse the sent messages too. When reading > from content://sms/sent, the person field always appears to be 0. Is > this the correct field to be reading to locate the recipient data for > the sent message? If so - why is it always 0. > > All my testing has been done in the emulator and I've created 3 > contacts. I've sent messages to those contacts from the emulator in > the normal manner you'd send a message. > > Just to reiterate, I can see the 4 sent messages and read the > associated body text. My problem is that I can't seem to read the > "person" ID and hence I can't work out who the recipient is. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Many thanks, > > Martin. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
