I'm writing an app that needs to distinguish between Android Stock ROM and other ROMs like SenseUI, etc.
How can I do that within my application?
Thanks.
I found that querying ro.product.brand
using getprop
yields exactly what I needed.
/**
* Returns the ROM manufacturer.
*
* @return The ROM manufacturer, or NULL if not found.
*/
public static String getROMManufacturer() {
String line;
BufferedReader input = null;
try {
Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("getprop ro.product.brand");
input = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(p.getInputStream()), 1024);
line = input.readLine();
input.close();
}
catch (IOException ex) {
Log.e(TAG, "Unable to read sysprop ro.product.brand", ex);
return null;
}
finally {
if (input != null) {
try {
input.close();
}
catch (IOException e) {
Log.e(TAG, "Exception while closing InputStream", e);
}
}
}
return line;
}
For stock ROMs the value we get back is google
For SenseUI for example, we will get back HTC
The above method will return the only google or HTC etc...
I hope it helped someone else as well.