How to implement search view for list view?

I wish to develop a simple SMS application for Android. And its only function is to show a threaded view of conversation between user and sender, when sender's phone number is given as an input. Could someone point me in the right direction?

• If possible could someone give me the code to implement it. I'm aware that a cursor (which contains all the sent and received messages from sender) can be used. But after getting the cursor containing the entire list, how do I display it in a threaded view? I'm very new to developing android applications, so I would be glad if someone could give the code for both Retrieving SMS (from Database) and creating threaded UI (ViewAdapters...etc). I've referred a few open source Android-SMS applications, but the code is really complex and on importing I get many errors.

• Answer:

  I suggest picking a simpler, smaller challenge for your first app.  You're struggling because you have not only the challenge of learning Android, but also wrestling with a not-so-simple problem. There isn't really any shortcut to learning quite a bit more (with the possible exception of finding an open source library that you can drop in).  Anything involving contacts and databases on Android is by necessity a complex operation, which the code you've seen should hint at. Whatever you do, don't try to download the Android platform source code and puzzle it out - while it is indeed open source, it's a monumental amount of code and complexity to handle a wide variety of devices and situations.