Display notification about received SMS message

Question

I'm creating an SMS message inside Inbox folder as follows:

ContentValues values = new ContentValues();
values.put("address", sender);
values.put("date", System.currentTimeMillis());
values.put("read", 0); // Message not read
values.put("status", 0);
values.put("type", 1);
values.put("seen", 0);
values.put("body", body);

ContentResolver rslv = context.getContentResolver();        
rslv.insert(Uri.parse("content://sms"), values);

This works well, but doesn't fire the usual "SMS received" notification in the top bar and play the notfitication sound. How do I do write such notification code (which presumably calls some SMS application's Intent to raise the notification) ?

Answer 1

Building a notification is done by using Notification.Builder class. A really simple example is this:

Notification noti = new Notification.Builder(mContext)
         .setContentTitle("New SMS from " + sender.toString())
         .setContentText(subject) 
         .setSmallIcon(R.drawable.new_mail)
         .setLargeIcon(aBitmap) 
         .build();   

More information is available in the official tutorial for the same.