How To Read Sms Stored In Sim Card In Android

I was wondering if anyone knew anything about programmatically getting the SMS messages off of your phone's sim card on an android platform. I would like to write a program that a

Solution 1:

You can manage the SMS saved on the SIM card with the URI content://sms/icc. It works also with the last version of Android.

For example this prints the contents of the cursor to System.out:

Cursorcursor= getContentResolver().query(Uri.parse("content://sms/icc"), null, null, null, null);
DatabaseUtils.dumpCursor(cursor);

You need the permissions:

<uses-permissionandroid:name="android.permission.READ_SMS"/><uses-permissionandroid:name="android.permission.WRITE_SMS"/>

You can find a complete example here: https://github.com/android/platform_packages_apps_mms/blob/master/src/com/android/mms/ui/ManageSimMessages.java