invoking app on receiving text message?

[aqsabatool]

i am making an application for text to speech . is this posssible that as a text message is received on android phone my application gets started and read that text?
i wish as i receive a text message , a button or smthing appear on screen if i click that button it calls my app(text to speech) and start reading the received text.

 

[scary alien]

stackoverflow.com is great resource for these type of questions (highly recommend them, obviously):

android - BroadcastReceiver + SMS_RECEIVED - Stack Overflow

How to make android launch an application on received specific sms - Stack Overflow

Best of luck and happy app developing!