Android Read Browser History

Android read browser history

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.

Get browser history and search result in android

For some strange reason, Google decided to mix bookmarks and history calling them "Bookmarks" in the SDK.
Try the following code, the important thing is to filter by "bookmark" type.

    String[] proj = new String[] { Browser.BookmarkColumns.TITLE, Browser.BookmarkColumns.URL };
    String sel = Browser.BookmarkColumns.BOOKMARK + " = 0"; // 0 = history, 1 = bookmark
    mCur = this.managedQuery(Browser.BOOKMARKS_URI, proj, sel, null, null);
    this.startManagingCursor(mCur);
    mCur.moveToFirst();

    String title = "";
    String url = "";

    if (mCur.moveToFirst() && mCur.getCount() > 0) {
        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();
        }
    }

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