Retrieve sms messages on a particular date in Android

    In order to get sms messages received on a particular date in an Android application you need to setup a filter which selects messages on the basis of date comparison as shown below.

	// First select the date shown by the datepicker.
	// Here I am assumming that a DatePicker object is displayed on the view with id dpResult which is used
	// to select a particular date.
	DatePicker datePicker = (DatePicker) findViewById(R.id.dpResult);
	// Now create a SimpleDateFormat object.
	SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss");
	// Add 1 in month as its 0 based.
	String selectedDate = datePicker.getYear() + "-" + (datePicker.getMonth() + 1) + "-" + datePicker.getDayOfMonth();
	// Now create a start and end time for this date in order to setup the filter.
	Date dateStart = formatter.parse(selectedDate + "T00:00:00");
	Date dateEnd = formatter.parse(selectedDate + "T23:59:59");
	// Now create the filter and query the messages.
	String filter = "date>=" + dateStart.getTime() + " and date<=" + dateEnd.getTime();
	final Uri SMS_INBOX = Uri.parse("content://sms/inbox");
	Cursor cursor = getContentResolver().query(SMS_INBOX, null, filter, null, null);
	List<String> items = new ArrayList<String>();
	while(cursor.moveToNext()) {
	// Convert date to a readable format.
	Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
	String date = cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex("date"));
	Long timestamp = Long.parseLong(date);
	calendar.setTimeInMillis(timestamp);
	Date finaldate = calendar.getTime();
	String smsDate = finaldate.toString();
	String smsBody = cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex("body"));
	String phoneNumber = " (" +cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex("address")) + ") ";
	items.add("From : " + Name + phoneNumber + "\n" +
	"Date Sent: " + smsDate + "\n" +
	"Message : " + smsBody + "\n");
	}
	cursor.close();
	// items can be used to fill a ListView as shown below.
	ListView smsList = (ListView)findViewById(R.id.smsList);
	ListAdapter listAdapter= new ArrayAdapter<String>(this, android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1, android.R.id.text1, items);
	smsList.setAdapter(listAdapter)

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    Also make sure to add <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_SMS" /> in AndoirdManifest.xml to include sms reading permission in the app.

   Similarly in order to retrieve sms messages sent after a particular date just remove <= check from filter and query the database a shown below.

	// Create a SimpleDateFormat object.
	SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss");
	// Add 1 in month as its 0 based.
	String selectedDate = datePicker.getYear() + "-" + (datePicker.getMonth() + 1) + "-" + datePicker.getDayOfMonth();
	// Now create a start time for this date in order to setup the filter.
	Date dateStart = formatter.parse(selectedDate + "T00:00:00");
	// Now create the filter and query the messages.
	String filter = "date>=" + dateStart.getTime();

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