Android Question Detecting website address

[trueboss323]

Is there a way to figure out what website the user is currently on? Regardless of which browser is being used i.e chrome, firefox

 

[imbault]

Ping the site.
Try to get data from the site, using an HTTP GET if it's offline, it will throw an error.

 

[trueboss323]

Hi,
Do you have an example code of how I can do that? But my question was that I want to get the CURRENT address or webpage the user is on, not figure out if it's online or not.

 

[Erel]

You can read the history log: https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/url-history-log.28415/#post-164992

 

[trueboss323]

I have tried that code, and it returns me an error:

java.lang.RuntimeException: Object should first be initialized (Cursor).

 

[DonManfred]

and it returns me an error

Do you set the right permission in your manifest?

AddPermission(com.android.browser.permission.READ_HISTORY_BOOKMARKS)

 

[trueboss323]

Do you set the right permission in your manifest?

AddPermission(com.android.browser.permission.READ_HISTORY_BOOKMARKS)

Yes I have added the permission

 

[Erel]

You can check Cursor.IsInitialized before you use it. There is no other way to get the browser history.

Note that I tried it on Nexus 5 with Chrome and it didn't return anything. It seems like it is not tracking Chrome history.

 

[trueboss323]

Thank you Erel. I'm not sure though why this wouldn't work with some devices.

I have also tried coming up with another way, this time I check if any browser is running in the foreground, and if it is could I get the tab title at least. Is that possible?

 

[Erel]

It is not possible.

 

[trueboss323]

Hi Erel, I have tried testing this code again, and I got it working finally! But it only seems this would work on Chrome. Previously I had the Chrome app disabled which is why it kept giving me that crash. So right now I am using Firefox, is there anyway I can get this to work with Firefox?

 

[Erel]

. So right now I am using Firefox, is there anyway I can get this to work with Firefox?

If the browser doesn't update this internal database then there is nothing that you can do.