Delete an SMS message from App Inventor App

[Ash]

Hello All,

    I am trying to develop an app using App Inventor. When an SMS message is got in an android mobile, I have written an app to show the message if it contains a particular keyword. Also, I am planning on saving the message details in the database.  I would now like to delete that SMS. Can you please let me know how App Inventor can be used to delete SMS messages. Thanks 

-Ashwini

[SteveJG]

App Inventor 2 probably cannot delete SMS messages programably and no app can do it since KitKat (4.4).  This is probably one of Google's security precautions.  See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46482005/delete-sms-from-another-activity-android for how it might be done using INTENTS for versions of Android lower than 4.4.  The advice might work.  Intents are implemented in App Inventor 2 by using the Activity Starter.

For practical purposes, this cannot be done other than manually using the page that displays the device's sms messages.

Regards,

Steve