how can we get the Hardware information of android device programmatically?

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As I have refer the old post i.e. Android: Get Hardware Information Programmatically but didn't find any relavant answer and also tried to find the solution in google but all in vain. Please help me go forward

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Offcourse I am aware of that, but there is no relavant answer for that post. Even I have already mentioned there.. You must check it out - @Bxtr — Rajat kumar, Jul 06 '15 at 07:40
If someone finds the answer, it should be added to the old question – no need to ask a duplicate. — Petr Viktorin, Jul 06 '15 at 11:02

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 06 '15 at 07:35

I recently setup such a thing... Upon registration, the phone sends to the webservice (with Retrofit) all the useful harware / software parameters I could find... Here is the relevant part of the code I used :

boolean isRooted = findBinary("su");
PackageInfo pInfo;
String version = "unknown";
try {
    pInfo = getPackageManager().getPackageInfo(getPackageName(), 0);
    version = pInfo.versionName;
} catch (NameNotFoundException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}

myService.sendPhoneDetails(
    android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT,
    android.os.Build.VERSION.RELEASE,
    android.os.Build.BRAND,
    android.os.Build.MANUFACTURER,
    android.os.Build.MODEL,
    android.os.Build.SERIAL,
    isRooted,
    version,
    new Callback<Model>() {
        @Override
            public void success(Model model, Response response) {
                // ....
            }
        @Override
            public void failure(RetrofitError error) {
                // ....
            }
        }
    );

private static boolean findBinary(String binaryName) {
    boolean found = false;
    if (!found) {
        String[] places = { "/sbin/", "/system/bin/", "/system/xbin/",
                "/data/local/xbin/", "/data/local/bin/",
                "/system/sd/xbin/", "/system/bin/failsafe/", "/data/local/" };
        for (String where : places) {
            if (new File(where + binaryName).exists()) {
                found = true;

                break;
            }
        }
    }
    return found;
}

Note that all the phones do not give access to the same info, like the phone number rarely accessible, but those ones look pretty common.

Hope this can help...

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 06 '15 at 07:24

Using Build class you can get all of this information.

to write down those info in a Toast (For Example) you can use:

Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), ""+Build.HARDWARE+Build.DEVICE+Build.MANUFACTURER+ "etc..", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

for more info about the build class check out the link above.

hope this will help.

score 1 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:00

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You can read /proc/meminfo and /proc/cpuinfo for example. These do not require root access and contain information about the memory / cpu.

Details on how to read these can be found here: Any way to run shell commands on android programmatically?

edited May 23 '17 at 12:00

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