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May I know, what is the reason for removing BOOKMARKS_URI from browser component Is there any replacement for BOOKMARKS_URI in android M

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Hi Amrutha,

When I tried to compile my existing project with android-MNC, i am facing compilation errors for BOOKMARKS_URI Property in android.provider.browser compoent. Can you please let me know why this was removed and is there any replacement for this.

If you could provide as much information as possible from comment#2, then we can investigate it further in better way.

Android build

Android MNC

Device used

Not able to build project. So, this not applicable

Steps to reproduce

Just 1) Create new project with Android-MNC 2) try to acess Browser.BOOKMARKS_URI.

Expected output

There, should not be an any compilation error. looks like Browser component updated

Current output

BOOKMARKS_URI cannot be resolved or is not a field - BOOKMARKS_URI cannot be resolved or is not a field

I have tried with the below code snippet

import static android.provider.Browser.BOOKMARKS_URI;

if(Browser.BOOKMARKS_URI.equals(Browser.BOOKMARKS_URI)){ System.out.println("CAN BE ACCESSED"); }

with MNC preview 2 MPZ79M on emulator Nexus 5 Armeabi and x86_64. Also on Nexus 5 Device having MPZ79M

and I am seeing the log : 07-24 10:41:10.335 5746-5746/com.example.amruthavanibid.myapplication I/System.out﹕ CAN BE ACCESSED

Neither seeing compilation nor runtime errors.

Please provide additional info on issue reproduction

Thanks Amrutha for your reply.

Is your project build taget is :Android-MNC

//project.properties target=android-MNC

And also in API i am seeing it removed. Please check browser component by downloading preview API from http://developer.android.com/preview/download.html#top

/**  
 * @removed
 */
public static final Uri BOOKMARKS_URI = Uri.parse("content://browser/bookmarks");

Thanks for the neccessary info given for issue reproduction. The issue is been tracked through bug id 19351071.

Comment deleted

Issue 2797 has been merged into this issue.

Global bookmarks are no longer available. They haven't really done anything for a long time anyway, since browsers these days generally keep their own internal bookmarks data rather than putting them in the global provider. Apps using the global provider should likewise switch to maintaining them internally.

I just want to bring up that while most fields from android.provider.Browser have been removed the Content Provider is still shipped with Android M Preview 2.

Accessing it will throw a security exception even though the permission is in the manifest: java.lang.SecurityException: Permission Denial: opening provider com.android.browser.provider.BrowserProviderProxy from ProcessRecord{9b5ea73 31158:org.mozilla.firefox_beta/u0a96} (pid=31158, uid=10096) requires com.android.browser.permission.READ_HISTORY_BOOKMARKS or com.android.browser.permission.WRITE_HISTORY_BOOKMARKS

I see that the content provider has been moved to an own project some time ago: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/providers/BookmarkProvider/

But it seems like the permission got lost and is no where defined in the system image of Android M Preview 2.

Actually if you go ahead and define the permission in your own project then you are actually able to access it again (Preview 2):

I'm just wondering whether the content provider will be completely removed in the final image?

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BookmarkProvider will be included in M in order to avoid crashing old apps which still try to access bookmarks. If you look in BookmarkProvider.java, you'll see it has a bunch of no-op implementations which don't actually provide any bookmarks. Apps targeting M should not try to access bookmarks and should not try to use the old bookmark permissions.

This must be a mistake, the functionality is key to most security products in the market. Please reconsider.

I agree

Same here. This is an important feature.

Doesn't the most common browser - Chrome on Android still use it?

Try this alternative way for those who still didn't found a way to get browser history:

public static final Uri BOOKMARKS_URI = Uri.parse("content://browser/bookmarks");

FYI : direct link to the source code of Android M release,

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/providers/BookmarkProvider/+/marshmallow-release/src/com/android/bookmarkstore/BookmarkProvider.java

You can see that the provider is a dummy that return no information :-(