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Receiving GTalk messages in your own application?

I am new to Android development. I'm a big fan of the Android Inbuilt Talk app, but I hate it - the lack of a custom notification, so I decided to develop an app for it.

My requirement is an application that monitors GTalk and displays pre-configured notifications when a message is received.

Please note that I do not want my application to request a GTalk username or password from a user. I know the Asmack library, but it is more useful for the IM client, so I just need to capture the incoming message event. (Something like BroadcastReceiver for SMS?)

Is it possible to receive Gtalk messages, how can you receive SMS messages using BroadcastReceiver ?

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There are no documented and supported tools for this, and I sincerely hope that Google has not left with some undocumented, unsupported and unsecured tools for this.

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Until it's documented, Google Services Framework provides permissions that give you access to the Google Talk content provider (GTalk Super Notifier uses one of them to do its magic). However, I could not find the documentation for this content provider, so you have to redesign it.

Here are the relevant permissions:

 + group:android.permission-group.MESSAGES + permission:com.google.android.providers.talk.permission.READ_ONLY package:com.google.android.gsf label:read instant messages description:Allows apps to read data from the Google Talk content provider. protectionLevel:dangerous + permission:com.google.android.providers.talk.permission.WRITE_ONLY package:com.google.android.gsf label:write instant messages description:Allows apps to write data to the Google Talk content provider. protectionLevel:dangerous

As an aside, it is strange that Google will set permissions with Level = "dangerous" protection and not document their use.

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