How to determine if application is running on stock ROM

Question

I'm writing an app that needs to distinguish between Android Stock ROM and other ROMs like SenseUI, etc.

How can I do that within my application?

Thanks.

Answer 1

I found that querying ro.product.brand using getprop yields exactly what I needed.

/**
 * Returns the ROM manufacturer.
 *
 * @return The ROM manufacturer, or NULL if not found.
 */
public static String getROMManufacturer() {
    String line;
    BufferedReader input = null;
    try {
        Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("getprop ro.product.brand");
        input = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(p.getInputStream()), 1024);
        line = input.readLine();
        input.close();
    }
    catch (IOException ex) {
        Log.e(TAG, "Unable to read sysprop ro.product.brand", ex);
        return null;
    }
    finally {
        if (input != null) {
            try {
                input.close();
            }
            catch (IOException e) {
                Log.e(TAG, "Exception while closing InputStream", e);
            }
        }
    }
    return line;
}

For stock ROMs the value we get back is google
For SenseUI for example, we will get back HTC

The above method will return the only google or HTC etc...

I hope it helped someone else as well.