How to Get Chrome Browsing History/Bookmarks in Our Android App

How to retrieve and display browser history and bookmarks in browser application

ArrayList mTitles=new ArrayList();
ArrayList mUrls=new ArrayList();

 public void getBrowserHist()  {
            Cursor mCur = 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();
               }
          }
    }

Add below uses-permission into your manifest file.

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

Enjoy :-)

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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