I'm developing an application where I need to see the list of accounts in a user's phone. I have go this code and it seems to work perfectly. The only problem I'm facing is I want to get list of accounts and not just one so how will this be achieved? I'm quite sure that a listview is required but I didn't get any clue as to how can I use that in here.
The code:
package com.example.root.accountspermission;
import android.Manifest;
import android.accounts.Account;
import android.accounts.AccountManager;
import android.content.pm.PackageManager;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.annotation.NonNull;
import android.support.v4.app.ActivityCompat;
import android.support.v4.content.ContextCompat;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.util.Patterns;
import android.widget.TextView;
import android.widget.Toast;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
public static final int PERMS_REQUEST_CODE = 1;
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
if (ContextCompat.checkSelfPermission(MainActivity.this, Manifest.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS) != PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED) {
if (ActivityCompat.shouldShowRequestPermissionRationale(MainActivity.this, Manifest.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS)) {
ActivityCompat.requestPermissions(MainActivity.this, new String[]{Manifest.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS}, PERMS_REQUEST_CODE);
} else {
ActivityCompat.requestPermissions(MainActivity.this, new String[]{Manifest.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS}, PERMS_REQUEST_CODE);
}
} else {
//do some stuff
String email = null;
Pattern gmailPattern = Patterns.EMAIL_ADDRESS;
Account[] accounts = AccountManager.get(this).getAccounts();
for (Account account : accounts) {
if (gmailPattern.matcher(account.name).matches()) {
email = account.name;
}
}
TextView viewEmail = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.email_address_view);
viewEmail.setText("Email From Device: " + email);
Toast.makeText(this, "Android Device Registered Email Address: " + email, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
}
}
}
Any kind of help would be appreciated.
UPDATE:
Thank you for your answer 'AndiGeeky'. I was able to modify the code a bit, have a look:
import android.Manifest;
import android.accounts.Account;
import android.accounts.AccountManager;
import android.content.pm.PackageManager;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.annotation.NonNull;
import android.support.v4.app.ActivityCompat;
import android.support.v4.content.ContextCompat;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.util.Patterns;
import android.widget.ArrayAdapter;
import android.widget.ListView;
import android.widget.TextView;
import android.widget.Toast;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
private ListView lv;
public static final int PERMS_REQUEST_CODE = 1;
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
if (ContextCompat.checkSelfPermission(MainActivity.this, Manifest.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS) != PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED) {
if (ActivityCompat.shouldShowRequestPermissionRationale(MainActivity.this, Manifest.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS)) {
ActivityCompat.requestPermissions(MainActivity.this, new String[]{Manifest.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS}, PERMS_REQUEST_CODE);
} else {
ActivityCompat.requestPermissions(MainActivity.this, new String[]{Manifest.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS}, PERMS_REQUEST_CODE);
}
} else {
//do some stuff
lv = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.accountsList);
List<String> emails = new ArrayList<String>();
Pattern gmailPattern = Patterns.EMAIL_ADDRESS;
Account[] accounts = AccountManager.get(this).getAccounts();
for (Account account : accounts) {
if (gmailPattern.matcher(account.name).matches()) {
emails.add(account.name);
}
}
ArrayAdapter<String> adapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(this, android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1,android.R.id.text1,emails);
lv.setAdapter(adapter);
//TextView viewEmail = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.email_address_view);
//viewEmail.setText("Email From Device: " + emails.size());
Toast.makeText(this, "Android Device Registered Email Address: " + emails.size(), Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
}
}
}
I was able to print all the accounts in a listview.
Code for XML:
<ListView
android:id="@+id/accountsList"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="0dp"
app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent" />
Change your implementation as below:
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
if (ContextCompat.checkSelfPermission(MainActivity.this, Manifest.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS) != PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED) {
if (ActivityCompat.shouldShowRequestPermissionRationale(MainActivity.this, Manifest.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS)) {
ActivityCompat.requestPermissions(MainActivity.this, new String[]{Manifest.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS}, PERMS_REQUEST_CODE);
} else {
ActivityCompat.requestPermissions(MainActivity.this, new String[]{Manifest.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS}, PERMS_REQUEST_CODE);
}
} else {
//do some stuff
ArrayList<String> emails = new ArrayList<>();
Pattern gmailPattern = Patterns.EMAIL_ADDRESS;
Account[] accounts = AccountManager.get(this).getAccounts();
for (Account account : accounts) {
if (gmailPattern.matcher(account.name).matches()) {
emails.add(account.name);
}
}
TextView viewEmail = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.email_address_view);
viewEmail.setText("Email From Device: " + emails.size());
Toast.makeText(this, "Android Device Registered Email Address: " + emails.get(0), Toast
.LENGTH_LONG).show();
}
}
}
Your Code:
Here your code just looping through the user accounts and when it follows pattern mentioned just store that account to string
and leave other accounts!
Edited Code
I have just stored all user accounts which follows pattern mentioned in code in a list.
Thanks!