Flutter Telephony not recieving sms in real hardware except emulator

Question

I am using telephony dependencies for receive_sms. It is working fine in the emulator and I receive every message sent, but it is not working on a real hardware phone.

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
import 'dart:async';
import 'package:telephony/telephony.dart';

onBackgroundMessage(SmsMessage message) {
  debugPrint("onBackgroundMessage called");
}

void main() {
  runApp(MyApp());
}

class MyApp extends StatefulWidget {
  @override
  _MyAppState createState() => _MyAppState();
}

class _MyAppState extends State<MyApp> {
  String _message = "";
  final telephony = Telephony.instance;

  @override
  void initState() {
    super.initState();
    initPlatformState();
  }

  onMessage(SmsMessage message) async {
    setState(() {
      _message = message.body ?? "Error reading message body.";
    });
  }

  onSendStatus(SendStatus status) {
    setState(() {
      _message = status == SendStatus.SENT ? "sent" : "delivered";
    });
  }

  // Platform messages are asynchronous, so we initialize in an async method.
  Future<void> initPlatformState() async {
    // Platform messages may fail, so we use a try/catch PlatformException.
    // If the widget was removed from the tree while the asynchronous platform
    // message was in flight, we want to discard the reply rather than calling
    // setState to update our non-existent appearance.

    final bool? result = await telephony.requestPhoneAndSmsPermissions;

    if (result != null && result) {
      telephony.listenIncomingSms(
          onNewMessage: onMessage, onBackgroundMessage: onBackgroundMessage);
    }

    if (!mounted) return;
  }

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return MaterialApp(
        home: Scaffold(
      appBar: AppBar(
        title: const Text('Plugin example app'),
      ),
      body: Column(
        mainAxisAlignment: MainAxisAlignment.center,
        children: [
          Center(child: Text("Latest received SMS: $_message")),
          TextButton(
              onPressed: () async {
                await telephony.openDialer("123413453");
              },
              child: Text('Open Dialer'))
        ],
      ),
    ));
  }
}

I made sure the correct permissions are added in the Android Manifest file. I asked for the RECEIVE_SMS and BROADCAST_SMS permissions and it appears to be working since I can receive messages in the emulator.

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Try asking for permission before you start listening to the message.

bool permissionsGranted = await telephony.requestPhoneAndSmsPermissions;

here are listed permission required and how to ask.

https://telephony.shounakmulay.dev/permissions