How can I read SMS messages from the inbox programmatically in Android?

I want to retrieve the SMS messages from the inbox and display them?

From stackoverflow

• It is a trivial process. You can see a good example in the source code SMSPopup

  Examine the following methods:

  public static SmsMmsMessage getSmsDetails(Context context,
                          long ignoreThreadId, boolean unreadOnly)
  public static long findMessageId(Context context, long threadId, long _timestamp, int messageType
  public static void setMessageRead(Context context, long messageId, int messageType)
  public static void deleteMessage(Context context, long messageId, long threadId, int messageType)
  

  this is the method for reading:

          public static SmsMmsMessage getSmsDetails(Context context,
                          long ignoreThreadId, boolean unreadOnly) {
  
                  String SMS_READ_COLUMN = "read";
                  String WHERE_CONDITION = unreadOnly ? SMS_READ_COLUMN + " = 0" : null;
                  String SORT_ORDER = "date DESC";
                  int count = 0;
  
                  //Log.v(WHERE_CONDITION);
  
                  if (ignoreThreadId > 0) {
  //                      Log.v("Ignoring sms threadId = " + ignoreThreadId);
                          WHERE_CONDITION += " AND thread_id != " + ignoreThreadId;
                  }
  
                  Cursor cursor = context.getContentResolver().query(
                                  SMS_INBOX_CONTENT_URI,
                        new String[] { "_id", "thread_id", "address", "person", "date", "body" },
                                  WHERE_CONDITION,
                                  null,
                                  SORT_ORDER);
  
                  if (cursor != null) {
                          try {
                                  count = cursor.getCount();
                                  if (count > 0) {
                                          cursor.moveToFirst();
  
  //                                      String[] columns = cursor.getColumnNames();
  //                                      for (int i=0; i<columns.length; i++) {
  //                                              Log.v("columns " + i + ": " + columns[i] + ": "
  //                                                              + cursor.getString(i));
  //                                      }
  
                                          long messageId = cursor.getLong(0);
                                          long threadId = cursor.getLong(1);
                                          String address = cursor.getString(2);
                                          long contactId = cursor.getLong(3);
                                          String contactId_string = String.valueOf(contactId);
                                          long timestamp = cursor.getLong(4);
  
                                          String body = cursor.getString(5);
  
                                          if (!unreadOnly) {
                                                  count = 0;
                                          }
  
                                          SmsMmsMessage smsMessage = new SmsMmsMessage(
                                                          context, address, contactId_string, body, timestamp,
                                                          threadId, count, messageId, SmsMmsMessage.MESSAGE_TYPE_SMS);
  
                                          return smsMessage;
  
                                  }
                          } finally {
                                  cursor.close();
                          }
                  }               
                  return null;
          }