Viewing a message in android
As far as I know, there is no ready-made solution. You will need to implement it yourself. If you look at the tutorial here: http://adilsoomro.blogspot.in/2012/12/android-listview-with-speech-bubble.html you get the complete source code for something similar to your iOS partner.
In short, to create speech bubbles, you will need ListView
with custom views and 9patch (fancy name for PNG).
Have a look at http://androidlibs.org/ to find more libraries if needed.
Update:
https://github.com/tuenti/SmsRadar/ :
Reading incoming and outgoing text messages with an Android app in different versions of the Android SDK is not trivial. If you don't want to look like an SMS app, and your app needs to read incoming and outgoing SMS, this is your library.
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