How to get the phone user's name?

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My application needs the user's display name. In System Settings, under the Users section, I can see my name. That would be fine for my app. How can I get that or a similar string?

Several suggestions to how to do this I found on Stack Overflow did not work for me.

AccountManager returns only the email address, which I don't need.
ContactsContract.Contacts contains only other people data.
ContactsContract.Profile seems to be empty.
ContactsContract.Data doesn't containt that name I need.
I wouldn't use oAuth or such login services. My app doesn't need account management, it just needs a name of the phone owner.

For Security reasons you cannot get phone user's name without accounts permission — Shriyansh Gautam, Sep 11 '17 at 18:58
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20360506/get-owner-name-of-an-android-device — Gowthaman M, Sep 11 '17 at 19:05
@ShriyanshGautam The app requests `GET_ACCOUNTS`, `READ_CONTACTS` premissions, and both these + `READ_PROFILE` are listed in the manifest. — klenium, Sep 11 '17 at 19:06
Still for gettting User's Name you need to implement Google Sign-in https://developers.google.com/identity/sign-in/android/people — Shriyansh Gautam, Sep 11 '17 at 19:12
@ShriyanshGautam Are you sure, there is no other option to get a short name? Getting the user's email is easy, but more dangerous... — klenium, Sep 11 '17 at 19:21
As far as I know I am sure. You can get email ids easily but not names. You need OAuth to access Name and other Profile Informations — Shriyansh Gautam, Sep 11 '17 at 19:22
If you have your doubt cleared then you can accept my answer. — Shriyansh Gautam, Sep 11 '17 at 20:20

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 11 '17 at 20:19

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You can get users email with GET_ACCOUTNS permission but for getting User Name you need to implement some OAuth to access User's Name and other profile informations.

One way is to user Google Sign-in developers.google.com/identity/sign-in/android/people

answered Sep 11 '17 at 20:19

Shriyansh Gautam

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 11 '17 at 20:05

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use String getUserName () method Returns the user name of the user making this call. This call is only available to applications on the system image; it requires the MANAGE_USERS permission.

for referenceClick here

answered Sep 11 '17 at 20:05

Anshul

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I can't grant that premission in an easy way. If I really need, I'll use Google Sign-in then. – klenium Sep 11 '17 at 20:25

How to get the phone user's name?

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