Android read browser history

Question

I want to read browser history in Android phone.

I have done some document reading, then I come to know that we can read browser history by android.provider.Browser class. It has :

final static Cursor getAllVisitedUrls(ContentResolver cr) 

...method which returns Cursor.

May I get help to handle Cursor, or any example code to get browser history?

Answer 1

Not really an answer but I can tell you what I did.

I first clone the browser repo and try to reproduce how they get the history. And I started getting:

Permission Denial: reading com.android.browser.BrowserProvider

So I added:

<uses-permission android:name="com.android.browser.permission.READ_HISTORY_BOOKMARKS" /> 

But it still is giving me the same error. I google it and I found this Accessing Data With Android Cursors.

Hope it helps.

Answer 2

managedQuery has been deprecated so use getContentResolver instead, use the following code:

String[] proj = new String[] { Browser.BookmarkColumns.TITLE, Browser.BookmarkColumns.URL }; String sel = Browser.BookmarkColumns.BOOKMARK + " = 0"; // 0 = history, 1 = bookmark Cursor mCur = getContentResolver().query(Browser.BOOKMARKS_URI, proj, sel, null, null); mCur.moveToFirst(); @SuppressWarnings("unused") String title = ""; @SuppressWarnings("unused") String url = ""; if (mCur.moveToFirst() && mCur.getCount() > 0) {     boolean cont = true;     while (mCur.isAfterLast() == false && cont) {         title = mCur.getString(mCur.getColumnIndex(Browser.BookmarkColumns.TITLE));         url = mCur.getString(mCur.getColumnIndex(Browser.BookmarkColumns.URL));         // Do something with title and url         mCur.moveToNext();     } } 

Also add permissions using

<uses-permission android:name="com.android.browser.permission.READ_HISTORY_BOOKMARKS" />