compile apk

[ahmaddxb]

Could you give some instructions of how to do the compiling of this apk. I want SMS functionality.

e.g Github actions workflow that will get it built.

I have forked your repo to try this myself, not sure how to get it working. You can see what I have done in my fork.

https://github.com/ahmaddxb/financisto1-holo

[tiberiusteng]

Clone the repo locally, import with Android Studio, and (theoretically) it should build. I haven't tried cloning and building from scratch for a while frankly ...

You don't need to recompile for SMS access actually, as long as your phone shows notification for received SMS messages (that including message text and sender number/name), you can use the new Notification Template feature to achieve the same result.

[ahmaddxb]

Thanks for your help, I will give it a try locally. I was hoping to do it with github actions, I will try locally and give github more effort when I can.

I have tonnes of SMS templates that need changing that's why, yes I should go through and change them all but that will take time.

[ahaghshenas]

You don't need to recompile for SMS access actually, as long as your phone shows notification for received SMS messages (that including message text and sender number/name), you can use the new Notification Template feature to achieve the same result.

Hi,

I have tested this, and it is great with my tests with other notifications, eg WhatsApp and telegram, but I cannot get it to capture incoming SMS.

This is an old template that has been working on previous app

[tiberiusteng]

Hi,
I've encountered similar issues, in my case it's displayed SMS/contact name not exactly matched the title pattern (you can put % at start or end for wildcard string match). With the config in your screenshot the notification title posted by SMS app must exactly displayed as WioPersonal for it to work.

Wait for next SMS sent by it, don't swipe it away, go to Notification Template list activity and use the right-top list button to copy exactly what the app sees the notification, and build on that.

[ahaghshenas]

Hi,

Did a test without result, screenshots attached. Am I missing something?

[tiberiusteng]

Strange ... sender with Amir Haghshenas should work. Is that what you copy/pasted from notification list? (click entry to copy)

you can try a last resort that put % on sender so it tries to search the message body on every notification.

for the message body part, you don't need to put {{}} at the end (it's using regex search substring so you only need {{}} if you want to skip something in center)

[ahmaddxb]

I managed to compile the app and install it on my phone. SMS permissions are still not there.

I have tried testing it with an SMS and it's not picked up.

[tiberiusteng]

I don't think the old code path decoding SMS payload will work on new android versions (I never tested that part with my environment).

[ahmaddxb]

I still use the original financisto with sms support and I'm on android 14. Sms does still work.

[tiberiusteng]

you will need to add following sections to AndroidManifest.xml to get SMS permission:

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.RECEIVE_SMS" />

<receiver
    android:name=".service.SmsReceiver"
    android:exported="true"
    android:permission="android.permission.BROADCAST_SMS">
    <intent-filter android:priority="1000"> <!-- https://stackoverflow.com/a/23732410/365675 -->
        <action android:name="android.provider.Telephony.SMS_RECEIVED" />
    </intent-filter>
</receiver>

and modify RequestPermissionActivity.java to un-comment this line

disableToggleIfGranted(Manifest.permission.RECEIVE_SMS, toggleSms, toggleSmsWrap);

and delete the following line

toggleSmsWrap.setVisibility(View.GONE);

to make the switch appear.

But I'm curious on the behavior of SMS notification on your device - Does it show notification? Does the notification have the message body? Is it showing but Financisto can't obtain its contents or it's completely not showing?

[ahmaddxb]

Ok, thanks I will give it a try.

The sms I tested is sending myself an sms from the same sim. When you do that there is no notification as you get normally in your notification.

If I get sms working with your changes then the testing method I'm doing will work as it reads the sms and doesn't look for the notification.

[ahmaddxb]

I don't know if you have added android intents to this app but if I could add transactions with android intents it would be useful. I currently use macrodroid to handle sms for another application. Macrodroid can manipule sms data and send intents.