I'm currently developing an application that needs to deal with SMS only if it is an SMS expected by the application (same behaviour as Whatsapp on registration).
I would like to abort the SMS Intent as it is not expected to appear in the SMS box.
My question is : I know that Google changed a lot about SMS behaviour in KitKat, and now, even if my SMS is well parsed by my application, the SMS also appear in SMSBox, even if I call this.abortBroadcast(); in my SMS broadcast receiver. So is there a way to avoid those SMS appearing in SMS box without having to develop a complete SMS application ?
For information, the priority is yet to 1000 (and I tried also with MAX Integer) in Manifest file for this Broadcast Receiver.
Hangouts uses the maximum possible priority (999 per the Intent-Filter docs) and therefore you cannot abort it on <4.4 releases. On 4.4+, only the default SMS app (blog post with details) can make changes to the SMS Provider (i.e., automatically delete the SMS).