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How to receive Sms in android/SMSReceiver in android We can create a sample smsreceiver application, so that whenever a new sms comes to the mobile, our app will display a toast about the message. In this example, you need not to create an activity. The only class needed is Broadcast Receiver. Broadcast Receiver will wait for a desired intent and executes when the condition reached.  In our example, the broadcast receiver will automatically loads whenever an sms is received. To do this, you need to create intent filter in your manifest file < intent-filter >                 < action android:name = "android.provider.Telephony.SMS_RECEIVED" />                             </ intent-filter > Smsreceiver.java package com.example.smsreceiver; import android.content.BroadcastReceiver; import android.content.Context; import android.content.Intent; import android.os.Bundle; import android.telephony.SmsMessage; import android.widget.Toast; public class SmsRe

How to send sms in Android/Send Sms in Android In this article, I I’ll show you to how to send SMS in your android phone. I think one of the most simple application you are going to create is sending sms. You need only two lines of codes to send sms to your friends mobile SmsManager smsManager=SmsManager.getDefault(); smsManager.sendTextMessage(“destinationnumber”, “sourcenumber”, “Subject”, null, null); Here, sendTextMessage()method contain five arguments. Last two arguments indicates pending intent to monitor the sending process. If you are a beginner, and don’t know much about intents and pending intents then set those fields as null.  Also set permission in the manifest file to send SMS <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.SEND_SMS"> main.xml <? xml version = "1.0" encoding = "utf-8" ?> < LinearLayout xmlns:android = "http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"     android:orientation = "vertical"

WebView in Android/ Access webview/Loading webview in Android/sample program to load web Using WebView, we can access the web easily. In order to implement webview, add webview in main.xml <? xml version = "1.0" encoding = "utf-8" ?> <WebView   xmlns:android = "http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"     android:id = "@+id/webview"     android:layout_width = "fill_parent"     android:layout_height = "fill_parent" /> Now add some 2 lines of codes in your main activity page   mWebView = ( WebView ) findViewById ( R . id . webview );   mWebView . loadUrl ( "http://www.google.com" ); Then add permission to the manifest file to access internet <uses-permission android:name = "android.permission.INTERNET" /> Run your application.. You can also access Internet by calling intent Uri uri = Uri . parse ( "http://www.example.com" ); Intent intent = new Intent ( Intent . ACTIO

Tab Layout in android/Tab activity in android Using tab layout, we can wrap multiple views in a single window and navigate through these views using tabs. Tab host, Tab widget and a frame layout are the important components used in the tab layout. In this project, we are creating three tabs named Artist, Album and Songs, and while clicking on each of these tabs, different page (means activity) will be loaded. First create a new project and add a tab host to your xml like this <TabHost xmlns:android = "http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"     android:id = "@android:id/tabhost"     android:layout_width = "fill_parent"     android:layout_height = "fill_parent" >     <LinearLayout         android:orientation = "vertical"         android:layout_width = "fill_parent"         android:layout_height = "fill_parent"         android:padding = "5dp" >         <TabWidget             android:id = &