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="android.permission.READ_HISTORY_BOOKMARKS" />

But it still is giving me the same error. I google it and I found this web.

Hope it helps.

Answer 2

I am abele to get history from following code

Cursor mCur = activity.managedQuery(Browser.BOOKMARKS_URI,
                    Browser.HISTORY_PROJECTION, null, null, null);
            mCur.moveToFirst();
            if (mCur.moveToFirst() && mCur.getCount() > 0) {
                while (mCur.isAfterLast() == false) {
                    Log.v("titleIdx", mCur
                            .getString(Browser.HISTORY_PROJECTION_TITLE_INDEX));
                    Log.v("urlIdx", mCur
                            .getString(Browser.HISTORY_PROJECTION_URL_INDEX));
                    mCur.moveToNext();
                }
            }

Answer 3

thanks for your help with bookmark but can you tell me how i can read all history? i managed all permissions and Cursor mCursor = Browser.getAllVisitedUrls(getContentResolver()); mCursor.moveToFirst();

    int rowCount = mCursor.getCount();

    Log.v("Count websites: ", ""+rowCount);

    for(int i=0; i<rowCount;i++)
    {

        Log.v("websites: "+i, ""+mCursor.getString(Browser.HISTORY_PROJECTION_VISITS_INDEX));
        Log.v("websites: "+i, ""+mCursor.getString(Browser.HISTORY_PROJECTION_URL_INDEX));

        if(!mCursor.isLast())
        {
            mCursor.moveToNext();
        }
    }

whats wrong with my code? please if you know then reply me