January
8th,
2013
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In order to use my google-play-crawler project in an android application, you have two option to get it work :
- requesting username, password and android-id from user, which is kind of lame! or
- fetching android-id and authentication token, that google play application(aka Phonesky) uses, programmatically.
You can accomplish second option with these functions.
private String getAuthToken() throws OperationCanceledException, AuthenticatorException, IOException {
Account account = AccountManager.get(this).getAccountsByType("com.google")[0];
AccountManagerFuture<Bundle> accFut = AccountManager.get(this).getAuthToken(account, "androidmarket", null, null, null, null);
Bundle authTokenBundle = accFut.getResult();
return authTokenBundle.get(AccountManager.KEY_AUTHTOKEN).toString();
}private String getAndroidID() {
String[] query = new String[] { "android_id" };
Cursor cursor = getApplicationContext().getContentResolver().query( Uri.parse("content://com.google.android.gsf.gservices"), null, null, query, null);
if ((cursor.moveToFirst()) && (cursor.getColumnCount() >= 2)) {
return Long.toHexString(Long.parseLong(cursor.getString(1))).toUpperCase();
}
return null;
}To call these two functions, you need to grant these permissions in your manifest file.
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS" />
<uses-permission android:name= "android.permission.MANAGE_ACCOUNTS" />
<uses-permission android:name="com.google.android.providers.gsf.permission.READ_GSERVICES" />