Retrieve messages from Inbox

Question

I am making an App with the help of which I can get an ArrayList of all the Text messages. I had no problem for achieving that but when I am sending it to default SMS application of Android device, I see the text surrounding by "[]". But I don't want that brackets.

For Eg.: My Inbox has a text "Hello World", but I am getting string displaying "[Hello World]". I want the exact message that is being displayed in my Inbox. So what should i do to remove extra "[]" from my string.

Please help me on that. Thanks in advance

Answer 1

If you are trying to send the whole ArrayList with toString() and it's displaying the brackets you can try to rebuild the string:

String message = "";
    for(int i=0; i<array.size(); i++){
        message += array.get(i) + ", ";
    }

Where ", " can be your delimiter. But I'm not sure this is what you want, can you provide more info in the description?

EDIT: Try

String message="[Hello World]";
        message.substring(1,message.length()-1);