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copied!<p>You would need to set specific permissions (read below for the link) but here is example of the code to use a <code>Cursor</code> to retrieve the first SMS message.</p> <pre><code>Uri uri = Uri.parse("content://sms/inbox"); // returns all the results from the given Context Cursor c = context.getContentResolver().query(uri, null, null ,null,null); String body = null; String number = null; if(c.moveToFirst()) { // move cursor to first row // retrieves the body and number of the SMS body = c.getString(c.getColumnIndexOrThrow("body")).toString(); number = c.getString(c.getColumnIndexOrThrow("address")).toString(); } // when your done, close the cursor. c.close(); </code></pre> <p>I would recommend looking over <a href="http://mobdev.olin.edu/mobdevwiki/FrontPage/Tutorials/SMS%20Messaging" rel="noreferrer"><strong>FrontPage/Tutorials/SMS Messaging - Mobdev Wiki</strong></a> it gives a good introductory on dealing with SMS handling on Android.</p> <h3>EDIT:</h3> <p>Those methods were not visible to your application because it was not extending to the <code>Activity</code> superclass. By default, when you develop an <em>application</em>, it inherits methods from that relationship. But you are not creating an application, per se, you are developing a widget.</p> <p>Luckily, within the <code>onUpdate</code> method they pass in the current <code>Context</code> which is a super class for <code>Activity</code> so we can use the variable <code>context</code> to invoke <code>getContentResolver</code> (<em>see above in the code</em>)</p> <p>I also removed <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Activity.html#startManagingCursor%28android.database.Cursor%29" rel="noreferrer"><strong><code>startManagingCursor</code></strong></a> method from the code, it is not completely necessary to have, it allows the Activity to handle the given <code>Cursor</code>'s lifecycle based on the Activity's lifecycle.</p> <p>Let me know if theres any problems.</p> <h3>EDIT 2:</h3> <p>Inside your <code>AndroidManifest.xml</code> file you need to set the correct permissions to avoid any exceptions, add this line.</p> <pre><code><uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_SMS"></uses-permission> </code></pre>

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