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Android read browser history

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?

Solution

  • 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.