SMSBackup

Simple tool to extract my received/sent SMS from an Android device.

Why build it? Motivation...

Because the most known option is open-source but delivers only to E-mail something that I do not wish. Even being a open source c`ontains a lots of extras instead of forking I developed a simple solution to save these information into the storage of the device. And then I decide how to share it...

Permissions

• READ_SMS for the obvious reason to gain acess into the inbox
• WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE / READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE to gain acesso to SD Card and write the export file

General Details

Export

The exported file it will be saved on the Documents folder of the internal storage

Format

The format of the file it's CSV to be easily imported on most visualization softwares. And it's easily readable with a Text editor.

Emulator

If you are trying this code on a emulator you can extract the file with the following command:

adb pull /storage/emulated/0/Documents/sms_backup.csv