I am making an app which makes use of a broadcast receiver for obtaining specific sms messages that are received in the phone. The sms messages which are to be fetched by the broadcast receiver contain "!test!" in them, and are then sent to the server through an HTTP post. This procedure functions properly on certain mobile phones, while on others it does not(though sometimes it does).
The problems lies in the broadcast receiver not being activated. According to the research which I have conducted recently, this issue seems to arise when a broadcast receiver with a higher priority obtains the sms broadcast first and then aborts it, preventing it from being delivered to other phones. Some of the solutions provided where to set the priority of intent filter to 999 or 1000. However this did not eventually fix the issue.
Also I have read that from android version 4.4 and above aborting a broadcast is not allowable, though I still seem to be facing the similar issue on such android versions also.
Even though I am aware that this is intrinsically much more related with some of the faults present with the Android OS, I have for convenience provided some code snippets. I would like to know whether there might be some approaches which could somehow tackle such an issue. And if not what would be the adviseful suggestions to take into consideration ?
Registering a receiver pro grammatically within the on create method.
registerReceiver(smsreceiver, new IntentFilter("android.provider.Telephony.SMS_RECEIVED"));
On recieve procedure:
private BroadcastReceiver smsreceiver = new BroadcastReceiver()
{
@Override
public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent)
{
Bundle bundle = intent.getExtras();
SmsMessage[] msgs = null;
String phonenumber = " ";
String msg = " ";
if(null != bundle)
{
String info = "Text SMS from ";
Object[] pdus = (Object[]) bundle.get("pdus");
msgs = new SmsMessage[pdus.length];
String info1 = "";
for (int i=0; i<msgs.length; i++){
msgs[i] = SmsMessage.createFromPdu((byte[])pdus[i]);
info += msgs[i].getOriginatingAddress();
phonenumber = msgs[i].getOriginatingAddress();
info += "\n*****TEXT MESSAGE*****\n";
info += msgs[i].getMessageBody().toString();
//msg = msgs[i].getMessageBody().toString();
msg += msgs[i].getMessageBody().toString();
info1 = "";
if (msgs[i].getServiceCenterAddress()!=null)
// info1 = info1 + " Service Center:" + msgs[i].getServiceCenterAddress().toString();
// info1 = info1 + " Protocol identifier:" + msgs[i].getProtocolIdentifier();
// info1 = info1 + " Time stamp in milisec:" + msgs[i].getTimestampMillis();
// info1 = info1 + "=" + msgs[i].getServiceCenterAddress().toString();
info1 = msgs[i].getServiceCenterAddress().toString();
info1 = info1 + "=" + msgs[i].getProtocolIdentifier();
info1 = info1 + "=" + msgs[i].getTimestampMillis();
long milliSeconds = msgs[i].getTimestampMillis();
// milliSeconds is the time of real message it is datestam in miliseconds
Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
// this shoule be the DateTime on moible when the message is recived
//long timeNow= System.currentTimeMillis();
// Long tsLong = System.currentTimeMillis()/1000;
Long tsLong = System.currentTimeMillis();
String ts = tsLong.toString();
//calendar.getTimeInMillis().setTimeInMillis(milliSeconds);
//int mYear = calendar.get(Calendar.YEAR);
//int mMonth = calendar.get(Calendar.MONTH);
//int mDay = calendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
// int mHour = calendar.get(Calendar.HOUR);
// int mMin = calendar.get(Calendar.MINUTE);
// int mSec = calendar.get(Calendar.SECOND);
//2015-09-11 23:09:10
// Y- m- d H: i: s
// String totalDateTime = Integer.toString(mYear) + "-" + Integer.toString(mMonth)+ "-"+ Integer.toString(mDay) + " " + Integer.toString(mHour) + ":" + Integer.toString(mMin)+ ":"+ Integer.toString(mSec);
String totalDateTime = ts; // this should be the time from the phone when SMS is received
info1 = info1 + "=" + totalDateTime;
}
// HERE make the new comment next line LINE COMMNET
// Toast.makeText(context, info, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
info = phonenumber + "_"+ msg;
// msg = msg.toLowerCase();
if (msg.contains("!test!")==true)
// {
// Toast.makeText(context, "location in msg", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
// }
// else
{
// here to o http to web php to save the data
Toast.makeText(context, info, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
txtName = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.name);
String phonenumberRec = txtName.getText().toString();
String codeofsender = msg.substring(6, 11);
String all = phonenumberRec + "|"+msg+"|"+phonenumber+"|"+codeofsender+"|"+info1;
ConnectivityManager cm =
(ConnectivityManager)getApplicationContext().getSystemService(Context.CONNECTIVITY_SERVICE);
NetworkInfo activeNetwork = cm.getActiveNetworkInfo();
boolean isConnected = activeNetwork != null &&
activeNetwork.isConnectedOrConnecting();
//StringEntity allF = new StringEntity(all, "UTF-8");
//
String _data = GetDateTimeWithProcedure("In SMS before network connected ");
WriteToLogTextFile(_data);
if (isConnected)
{
String _data1 = GetDateTimeWithProcedure("In SMS network connected ");
if (activeNetwork != null && activeNetwork.isConnected() && activeNetwork.getType() == ConnectivityManager.TYPE_WIFI)
{
_data1 = "WIFI " + _data1;
}
if (activeNetwork != null && activeNetwork.isConnected() && activeNetwork.getType() == ConnectivityManager.TYPE_MOBILE)
{
_data1 = "Mobile Network " + _data1;
}
WriteToLogTextFile2(_data1);
new MyAsyncTask().execute(all);
}
// String res = postDataToWebServer(phonenumberRec,msg,phonenumber,codeofsender, info1);
}
}
}
};
Defining receiver in android manfiest.xml:
<receiver android:name=".smsreceiver">
<intent-filter android:priority="999">
</intent-filter>
