How To Select More Contacts From My Contact List To Send An Sms

Right now i am able to select only one contact from my contacts in my phone,i want to send sms more person in my contact list ,how can i send. Right now i cant add more contacts in

Solution 1:

You can get all contacts from the contact list and display it in a list. You can select the contacts using check box and click the button. Navigate to SendMessage activity and type the sms content and send message

I think there is a better way of dealing with checkboxes. For check box get selected item i followed the below link.

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/android-developers/No0LrgJ6q2M

Also you can fetch columns that you only need. Below fetches all columns which is not good.

  Cursor phones = cr.query(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI, null,null,null, null);

get.xml

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
tools:context=".MainActivity" >

<ListView
   android:layout_width="match_parent"
   android:layout_height="wrap_content"
   android:layout_above="@+id/button1"
   android:id="@+id/lv"/>
 <Button
     android:id="@+id/button1"
     android:layout_width="wrap_content"
     android:layout_height="wrap_content"
     android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
     android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
     android:layout_marginLeft="44dp"
     android:text="Send" />

 </RelativeLayout>

MainActivity.java

public class MainActivity extends Activity implements OnItemClickListener{

ArrayList<String> name1 = new ArrayList<String>();
ArrayList<String> phno1 = new ArrayList<String>();
ArrayList<String> phno0 = new ArrayList<String>();
MyAdapter ma ;
Button show,add;
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);


    setContentView(R.layout.get);
    getAllCallLogs(this.getContentResolver());
    ListView lv= (ListView) findViewById(R.id.lv);
     ma = new MyAdapter();
    lv.setAdapter(ma);
    lv.setOnItemClickListener(this); 
    lv.setItemsCanFocus(false);
    lv.setTextFilterEnabled(true);
    // adding
    add = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button1);
    add.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener()
    {

        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
              StringBuilder checkedcontacts= new StringBuilder();
            System.out.println(".............."+ma.mCheckStates.size());
            for(int i = 0; i < name1.size(); i++)

                {
                if(ma.mCheckStates.get(i)==true)
                {
                      phno0.add(phno1.get(i).toString()) ;
                     checkedcontacts.append(name1.get(i).toString());
                     checkedcontacts.append("\n");

                }
                else
                {
           System.out.println("..Not Checked......"+name1.get(i).toString());
                }


            }
                Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, checkedcontacts,1000).show();
                Intent intent = new Intent(new Intent(MainActivity.this,SendMessage.class));
                intent.putStringArrayListExtra("name",phno0);
                startActivity(intent); 

        }       
    });


}

@Override
public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> arg0, View arg1, int arg2, long arg3) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
     ma.toggle(arg2);
}

public  void getAllCallLogs(ContentResolver cr) {

    Cursor phones = cr.query(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI, null,null,null, null);
    while (phones.moveToNext())
    {
      String name=phones.getString(phones.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.DISPLAY_NAME));
      String phoneNumber = phones.getString(phones.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER));
      System.out.println(".................."+phoneNumber); 
      name1.add(name);
      phno1.add(phoneNumber);
    }

    phones.close();
 }
class MyAdapter extends BaseAdapter implements CompoundButton.OnCheckedChangeListener
{  private SparseBooleanArray mCheckStates;
   LayoutInflater mInflater;
    TextView tv1,tv;
    CheckBox cb;
    MyAdapter()
    {
        mCheckStates = new SparseBooleanArray(name1.size());
        mInflater = (LayoutInflater)MainActivity.this.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
    }
    @Override
    public int getCount() {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        return name1.size();
    }

    @Override
    public Object getItem(int position) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        return position;
    }

    @Override
    public long getItemId(int position) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub

        return 0;
    }

    @Override
    public View getView(final int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        View vi=convertView;
        if(convertView==null)
         vi = mInflater.inflate(R.layout.row, null); 
         TextView tv= (TextView) vi.findViewById(R.id.textView1);
         tv1= (TextView) vi.findViewById(R.id.textView2);
         cb = (CheckBox) vi.findViewById(R.id.checkBox1);
         tv.setText("Name :"+ name1.get(position));
         tv1.setText("Phone No :"+ phno1.get(position));
         cb.setTag(position);
         cb.setChecked(mCheckStates.get(position, false));
         cb.setOnCheckedChangeListener(this);

        return vi;
    }
     public boolean isChecked(int position) {
            return mCheckStates.get(position, false);
        }

        public void setChecked(int position, boolean isChecked) {
            mCheckStates.put(position, isChecked);
        }

        public void toggle(int position) {
            setChecked(position, !isChecked(position));
        }
    @Override
    public void onCheckedChanged(CompoundButton buttonView,
            boolean isChecked) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub

         mCheckStates.put((Integer) buttonView.getTag(), isChecked);                 
    }       
}   
}

SendMessage.java

   public class SendMessage extends Activity {

EditText ed1,ed2;
ArrayList<String> sendlist = new ArrayList<String>();
Button b1;
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.sendmessage);
    ed1= (EditText)findViewById(R.id.editText1);
    ed2= (EditText)findViewById(R.id.editText2);
    Bundle extras = getIntent().getExtras();
    if(extras!=null)
    {
        sendlist = extras.getStringArrayList("name");
        if(sendlist!=null)
        {
        for(int i=0;i<sendlist.size();i++)
        {
            ed1.append(sendlist.get(i).toString());
            ed1.append(";");
        }
    }
    }
    else
    {
        Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "null",
                Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
    }
    b1 = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button1);
    b1.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener()
    {

        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            for(int i=0;i<sendlist.size();i++)
            {

                if(ed2.getText().length()>0)
                {
                  try {
                        SmsManager smsManager = SmsManager.getDefault();

                        smsManager.sendTextMessage(sendlist.get(i).toString(), null, ed2.getText().toString(), null, null);

                        Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "SMS Sent!",
                                    Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
                      } catch (Exception e) {
                        Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),
                            "SMS faild, please try again later!",
                            Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
                        e.printStackTrace();
                      }
                }
            }

        }

    });
}   
}

sendmessage.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" >

<EditText
    android:id="@+id/editText1"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
    android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
    android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
    android:layout_marginTop="18dp"
    android:ems="10" >

    <requestFocus />
</EditText>

<EditText
    android:id="@+id/editText2"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="200dp"
    android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
    android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
    android:layout_below="@+id/editText1"
    android:layout_marginTop="62dp"
    android:ems="10" />

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/textView1"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_alignTop="@+id/editText1"
    android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
    android:text="Phone Numbers" />

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/textView2"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_below="@+id/editText1"
    android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
    android:layout_marginTop="37dp"
    android:text="Message" />

<Button
    android:id="@+id/button1"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/textView2"
    android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
    android:text="Send" />

</RelativeLayout>

You need to add these two permissions

 <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_CONTACTS"/>
 <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.SEND_SMS" />

Edit:

Open SendMessage Activity first. Click the get button next to editext1. Navigate to MainActivity which displays all contacts and select using check boxes. Click send will finish the actiivty and retunn sms activity. You can see the selected contacts in editext 1. The rest is the same.

I have used startActivity for result. This more than i can do to help you. pls modify the same accordingly.

  public class SendMessage extends Activity {

EditText ed1,ed2;
static int ResultCode= 12;
ArrayList<String> sendlist = new ArrayList<String>();
Button b1,b2;
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.sendmessage);
    b2 = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button2);
    ed1= (EditText)findViewById(R.id.editText1);
    ed2= (EditText)findViewById(R.id.editText2);
    b1 = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button1);
    b2.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener()
     {

    @Override
    public void onClick(View v) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        Intent i = new Intent(SendMessage.this, MainActivity.class);
        startActivityForResult(i, ResultCode);
    }

 });

    b1.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener()
    {

        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            for(int i=0;i<sendlist.size();i++)
            {

                if(ed2.getText().length()>0)
                {
                  try {
                        SmsManager smsManager = SmsManager.getDefault();

                        smsManager.sendTextMessage(sendlist.get(i).toString(), null, ed2.getText().toString(), null, null);

                        Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "SMS Sent!",
                                    Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
                      } catch (Exception e) {
                        Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),
                            "SMS faild, please try again later!",
                            Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
                        e.printStackTrace();
                      }
                }
            }

        }

    });
}


protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {

      if (requestCode == ResultCode) {

         if(resultCode == RESULT_OK){      
             sendlist  =data.getStringArrayListExtra("name");
             if(sendlist!=null)
                {
                for(int i=0;i<sendlist.size();i++)
                {
                    ed1.append(sendlist.get(i).toString());
                    ed1.append(";");
                }

         }
         if (resultCode == RESULT_CANCELED) {    

         }
      }
    }
}
}

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" >

<EditText
    android:id="@+id/editText1"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
    android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
    android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
    android:layout_marginTop="18dp"
    android:ems="10" >

    <requestFocus />
</EditText>

<EditText
    android:id="@+id/editText2"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="200dp"
    android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
    android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
    android:layout_below="@+id/editText1"
    android:layout_marginTop="62dp"
    android:ems="10" />

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/textView1"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_alignTop="@+id/editText1"
    android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
    android:text="Phone Numbers" />

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/textView2"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_below="@+id/editText1"
    android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
    android:layout_marginTop="37dp"
    android:text="Message" />

<Button
    android:id="@+id/button1"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/textView2"
    android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
    android:text="Send" />

<Button
    android:id="@+id/button2"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_alignBaseline="@+id/textView2"
    android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/textView2"
    android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
    android:text="Get" />

 </RelativeLayout>

MainActivity

    public class MainActivity extends Activity implements OnItemClickListener{


ArrayList<String> name1 = new ArrayList<String>();
ArrayList<String> phno1 = new ArrayList<String>();
ArrayList<String> phno0 = new ArrayList<String>();
MyAdapter ma ;
Button send;
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);


    setContentView(R.layout.get);
    getAllCallLogs(this.getContentResolver());
    ListView lv= (ListView) findViewById(R.id.lv);
     ma = new MyAdapter();
    lv.setAdapter(ma);
    lv.setOnItemClickListener(this); 
    lv.setItemsCanFocus(false);
    lv.setTextFilterEnabled(true);
    send = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button1);
    send.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener()
    {

        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
              StringBuilder checkedcontacts= new StringBuilder();
            System.out.println(".............."+ma.mCheckStates.size());
            for(int i = 0; i < name1.size(); i++)

                {
                if(ma.mCheckStates.get(i)==true)
                {
                      phno0.add(phno1.get(i).toString()) ;
                     checkedcontacts.append(name1.get(i).toString());
                     checkedcontacts.append("\n");

                }
                else
                {
                    System.out.println("..Not Checked......"+name1.get(i).toString());
                }


            }
                Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, checkedcontacts,1000).show();
                Intent returnIntent = new Intent();
                 returnIntent.putStringArrayListExtra("name",phno0);
                 setResult(RESULT_OK,returnIntent);     
                 finish();

        }       
    });
}

@Override
public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> arg0, View arg1, int arg2, long arg3) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
     ma.toggle(arg2);
}

public  void getAllCallLogs(ContentResolver cr) {

    Cursor phones = cr.query(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI, null,null,null, null);
    while (phones.moveToNext())
    {
      String name=phones.getString(phones.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.DISPLAY_NAME));
      String phoneNumber = phones.getString(phones.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER));
      System.out.println(".................."+phoneNumber); 
      name1.add(name);
      phno1.add(phoneNumber);
    }

    phones.close();
 }
class MyAdapter extends BaseAdapter implements CompoundButton.OnCheckedChangeListener
{  private SparseBooleanArray mCheckStates;
   LayoutInflater mInflater;
    TextView tv1,tv;
    CheckBox cb;
    MyAdapter()
    {
        mCheckStates = new SparseBooleanArray(name1.size());
        mInflater = (LayoutInflater)MainActivity.this.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
    }
    @Override
    public int getCount() {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        return name1.size();
    }

    @Override
    public Object getItem(int position) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        return position;
    }

    @Override
    public long getItemId(int position) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub

        return 0;
    }

    @Override
    public View getView(final int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        View vi=convertView;
        if(convertView==null)
         vi = mInflater.inflate(R.layout.row, null); 
         tv= (TextView) vi.findViewById(R.id.textView1);
         tv1= (TextView) vi.findViewById(R.id.textView2);
         cb = (CheckBox) vi.findViewById(R.id.checkBox1);
         tv.setText("Name :"+ name1.get(position));
         tv1.setText("Phone No :"+ phno1.get(position));
         cb.setTag(position);
         cb.setChecked(mCheckStates.get(position, false));
         cb.setOnCheckedChangeListener(this);

        return vi;
    }
     public boolean isChecked(int position) {
            return mCheckStates.get(position, false);
        }

        public void setChecked(int position, boolean isChecked) {
            mCheckStates.put(position, isChecked);
        }

        public void toggle(int position) {
            setChecked(position, !isChecked(position));
        }
    @Override
    public void onCheckedChanged(CompoundButton buttonView,
            boolean isChecked) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub

         mCheckStates.put((Integer) buttonView.getTag(), isChecked);                 
    }       
}   
} 

row.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" >

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/textView1"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
    android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
    android:layout_marginLeft="15dp"
    android:layout_marginTop="34dp"
    android:text="TextView" />

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/textView2"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/checkBox1"
    android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/textView1"
    android:text="TextView" />

<CheckBox
    android:id="@+id/checkBox1"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
    android:layout_below="@+id/textView1"
    android:layout_marginRight="22dp"
    android:layout_marginTop="23dp" />
 </RelativeLayout 

Manifest file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
package="com.example.sendsmstoall"
android:versionCode="1"
android:versionName="1.0" >

<uses-sdk
    android:minSdkVersion="8"
    android:targetSdkVersion="17" />
 <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_CONTACTS"/>
       <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.SEND_SMS" />

<application
    android:allowBackup="true"
    android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
    android:label="@string/app_name"
    android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >
    <activity
        android:name="com.example.sendsmstoall.SendMessage"
        android:label="@string/app_name" >
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
        </intent-filter>
    </activity>
     <activity
        android:name=".MainActivity"
        android:label="@string/app_name" >

    </activity>
</application>

</manifest>