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How to retrieve sms date field in android

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I'm new to Android programming and I was writing some test code to retrieve all the sms messages in the inbox using an sms intent. The code I wrote is as follows:







Uri uri = Uri.parse("content://sms/inbox");

Cursor c = getContentResolver().query(uri, new String[]{"address","person","date","body"}, null, null, null);

c.moveToFirst();

if(c.getCount() > 0){

        while(!c.isLast()){

            System.out.println(c.getString(c.getColumnIndex("date")));

            c.moveToNext();

        }

}







Is this the right way? I see that the value for the date column is retrieved as something like "1326781012725". I want to convert this into a readable format like YYYY-MM-DD.How can I do this?





Note that I'm using API version 10 and hence the api - cursor.getType() (that returns the data type of the column) is not available.





Thanks.


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  1. Tips For AllJanuary 18, 2012 at 2:32 AM

    "1326781012725" is a timestamp. timestamp conversion can be made like this;

    final Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
    cal.setTimeInMillis(System.currentTimeMillis());
    Date date = cal.getTime();
    mHour = date.getHours();
    mMinute = date.getMinutes();

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