Programmatically obtain the phone number of the Android phone

Question

How can I programmatically get the phone number of the device that is running my android app?

Answer 1

while working on a security app which needed to get the phone number of who so ever my phone might get into their hands, I had to do this; 1. receive Boot completed and then try getting Line1_Number from telephonyManager which returns a string result. 2. compare the String result with my own phone number and if they don't match or string returns null then, 3. secretly send an SMS containing the string result plus a special sign to my office number. 4. if message sending fails, start a service and keep trying after each hour until sent SMS pending intent returns successful. With this steps I could get the number of the person using my lost phone. it doesn't matter if the person is charged.