Here is source code of the Program to Show SMS in Your Phone in Android. The program is successfully compiled and run on a Windows system using Eclipse Ide. The program output is also shown below.

Main Activity

package com.example.read_sms;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import android.app.ListActivity;
import android.content.ContentResolver;
import android.database.Cursor;
import android.net.Uri;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.provider.BaseColumns;
import android.provider.ContactsContract;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.ListView;
import android.widget.Toast;

public class MainActivity extends ListActivity {

@Override
protected void onDestroy() {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
super.onDestroy();
}

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

List List = new ArrayList();

Uri uri = Uri.parse("content://sms/inbox");
Cursor cur = getContentResolver().query(uri, null, null, null, null);
startManagingCursor(cur);

if (cur.moveToFirst()) {
for (int i = 0; i < cur.getCount(); i++) {
SmsFormat sms = new SmsFormat();
if (cur.getColumnIndexOrThrow("body") > -1) {
sms.setBody(cur
.getString(cur.getColumnIndexOrThrow("body"))
.toString());
}
if (cur.getColumnIndexOrThrow("address") > -1) {
sms.setNumber(cur.getString(
cur.getColumnIndexOrThrow("address")).toString());
}

String name = null;
name = Search(cur.getString(
cur.getColumnIndexOrThrow("address")).toString());

if (name != " ") {
sms.setName(name);
List.add(sms);
}
cur.moveToNext();
}
}
cur.close();

setListAdapter(new ListAdapter(this, List));

}

@Override
protected void onListItemClick(ListView l, View v, int position, long id) {
SmsFormat sms = (SmsFormat) getListAdapter().getItem(position);
Log.i("MSG", sms.getBody());

}

public String Search(String number) {
Uri uri = Uri.withAppendedPath(
ContactsContract.PhoneLookup.CONTENT_FILTER_URI,
Uri.encode(number));
String name = " ";

ContentResolver contentResolver = getContentResolver();
Cursor contactLookup = contentResolver.query(uri, new String[] {
BaseColumns._ID, ContactsContract.PhoneLookup.DISPLAY_NAME },
null, null, null);

try {
if (contactLookup != null && contactLookup.getCount() > 0) {
contactLookup.moveToNext();
name = contactLookup.getString(contactLookup
.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Data.DISPLAY_NAME));
}
} finally {
if (contactLookup != null) {
contactLookup.close();
}
}

return name;
}
}


List Adapter

package com.example.read_sms;

import java.util.List;

import android.content.Context;
import android.content.res.Resources;
import android.graphics.Bitmap;
import android.graphics.BitmapFactory;
import android.graphics.Canvas;
import android.graphics.drawable.BitmapDrawable;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.ArrayAdapter;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class ListAdapter extends ArrayAdapter {

private final Context context;
private final List smslist;

public ListAdapter(Context context, List smsList) {
super(context, R.layout.activity_main, smsList);
this.context = context;
this.smslist = smsList;
}

@Override
public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater) context
.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);

View rowView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.activity_main, parent, false);

TextView senderNumber = (TextView) rowView.findViewById(R.id.textView1);

senderNumber.setText(smslist.get(position).getName() + "\n"
+ smslist.get(position).getNumber() + "\n" + "\n"
+ smslist.get(position).getBody());

return rowView;
}

}


Sms Format

package com.example.read_sms;

public class SmsFormat {

private String number;
private String body;
private String name;

public String getName() {
return name;
}

public void setName(String name) {
this.name = name;
}

public String getNumber() {
return number;
}

public void setNumber(String number) {
this.number = number;
}

public String getBody() {
return body;
}

public void setBody(String body) {
this.body = body;
}

}

Activity_Main

<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"
android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
tools:context=".MainActivity" >

<TextView
android:id="@+id/textView1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:text="Medium Text"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />

</RelativeLayout>