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.

managedQuery has been deprecated so use getContentResolver instead, use the following code:

String[] proj = new String[] { Browser.BookmarkColumns.TITLE, Browser.BookmarkColumns.URL };
String sel = Browser.BookmarkColumns.BOOKMARK + " = 0"; // 0 = history, 1 = bookmark
Cursor mCur = getContentResolver().query(Browser.BOOKMARKS_URI, proj, sel, null, null);
mCur.moveToFirst();
@SuppressWarnings("unused")
String title = "";
@SuppressWarnings("unused")
String url = "";
if (mCur.moveToFirst() && mCur.getCount() > 0) {
    boolean cont = true;
    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();
    }
}

Also add permissions using

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