I would like to know if there is a way for reading the Phone Model programmatically in Android.
I would like to get a string like HTC Dream, Milestone, Sapphire or whatever...
On many popular devices the market name of the device is not available. For example, on the Samsung Galaxy S6 the value of Build.MODEL
could be "SM-G920F"
, "SM-G920I"
, or "SM-G920W8"
.
I created a small library that gets the market (consumer friendly) name of a device. It gets the correct name for over 10,000 devices and is constantly updated. If you wish to use my library click the link below:
If you do not want to use the library above, then this is the best solution for getting a consumer friendly device name:
/** Returns the consumer friendly device name */
public static String getDeviceName() {
String manufacturer = Build.MANUFACTURER;
String model = Build.MODEL;
if (model.startsWith(manufacturer)) {
return capitalize(model);
}
return capitalize(manufacturer) + " " + model;
}
private static String capitalize(String str) {
if (TextUtils.isEmpty(str)) {
return str;
}
char[] arr = str.toCharArray();
boolean capitalizeNext = true;
StringBuilder phrase = new StringBuilder();
for (char c : arr) {
if (capitalizeNext && Character.isLetter(c)) {
phrase.append(Character.toUpperCase(c));
capitalizeNext = false;
continue;
} else if (Character.isWhitespace(c)) {
capitalizeNext = true;
}
phrase.append(c);
}
return phrase.toString();
}
Example from my Verizon HTC One M8:
// using method from above
System.out.println(getDeviceName());
// Using https://github.com/jaredrummler/AndroidDeviceNames
System.out.println(DeviceName.getDeviceName());
Result:
HTC6525LVW
HTC One (M8)