Reading Browser favorites (links) from an Adobe AIR application

Question

Is it possible to get read access to favorited sites (that have been set using Android's native browser) from within an AIR-application? I could not find an API for this. Furthermore, I didn't find anything about browsing android's filesystem. It seems something like a favorites folder does not exist.

Answer 1

Yes, you can access it through the Android Content Provider api. Specifically, it's right here in the Android API: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/provider/Browser.html#BOOKMARKS_URI here is the Content Provider developer guide: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/providers/content-providers.html

This tutorial shows how to actually work with bookmarks specifically: http://mobileorchard.com/android-app-development-android-content-providers/

To access this from AIR I thinkyou'll need to write a NativeExtension. Here are some examples: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/native-extensions-for-air.html but maybe you can access that URI directly from AIR with a service or something? I don't do much native android so I don't know for sure.