How to get the Android device's primary e-mail address

Question

How do you get the Android\'s primary e-mail address (or a list of e-mail addresses)?

It\'s my understanding that on OS 2.0+ there\'s support for multiple e-mail add

Answer 1

Android locked down GET_ACCOUNTS recently so some of the answers did not work for me. I got this working on Android 7.0 with the caveat that your users have to endure a permission dialog.

AndroidManifest.xml

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS"/>

MainActivity.java

package com.example.patrick.app2;
import android.content.pm.PackageManager;
import android.support.v4.app.ActivityCompat;
import android.support.v4.content.ContextCompat;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.accounts.AccountManager;
import android.accounts.Account;
import android.app.AlertDialog;
import android.content.DialogInterface;
import android.content.*;

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    final static int requestcode = 4; //arbitrary constant less than 2^16

    private static String getEmailId(Context context) {
        AccountManager accountManager = AccountManager.get(context);
        Account[] accounts = accountManager.getAccountsByType("com.google");
        Account account;
        if (accounts.length > 0) {
            account = accounts[0];
        } else {
            return "length is zero";
        }
        return account.name;
    }

    @Override
    public void onRequestPermissionsResult(int requestCode, String permissions[], int[] grantResults) {
        super.onRequestPermissionsResult(requestCode, permissions, grantResults);
        switch (requestCode) {
            case requestcode:
                if (grantResults.length > 0 && grantResults[0] == PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED) {

                    String emailAddr = getEmailId(getApplicationContext());
                    ShowMessage(emailAddr);

                } else {
                    ShowMessage("Permission Denied");
                }
        }
    }

    public void ShowMessage(String email)
    {
        AlertDialog alertDialog = new AlertDialog.Builder(MainActivity.this).create();
        alertDialog.setTitle("Alert");
        alertDialog.setMessage(email);
        alertDialog.setButton(AlertDialog.BUTTON_NEUTRAL, "OK",
                new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                    public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {
                        dialog.dismiss();
                    }
                });
        alertDialog.show();
    }

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        Context context = getApplicationContext();

        if ( ContextCompat.checkSelfPermission( context, android.Manifest.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS )
                != PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED )
        {
            ActivityCompat.requestPermissions( this, new String[]
                            {  android.Manifest.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS  },requestcode );
        }
        else
        {
            String possibleEmail = getEmailId(getApplicationContext());
            ShowMessage(possibleEmail);
        }
    }
}

Answer 2

Use this method:

 public String getUserEmail() {
    AccountManager manager = AccountManager.get(App.getInstance());
    Account[] accounts = manager.getAccountsByType("com.google");
    List<String> possibleEmails = new LinkedList<>();
    for (Account account : accounts) {
        possibleEmails.add(account.name);
    }
    if (!possibleEmails.isEmpty() && possibleEmails.get(0) != null) {
        return possibleEmails.get(0);
    }
    return "";
}

Note that this requires the GET_ACCOUNTS permission:

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS" />

Then:

editTextEmailAddress.setText(getUserEmail());

Answer 3

public String getUsername() {
    AccountManager manager = AccountManager.get(this);
    Account[] accounts = manager.getAccountsByType("com.google");
    List<String> possibleEmails = new LinkedList<String>();

    for (Account account : accounts) {
        // TODO: Check possibleEmail against an email regex or treat
        // account.name as an email address only for certain account.type values.
        possibleEmails.add(account.name);
    }

    if (!possibleEmails.isEmpty() && possibleEmails.get(0) != null) {
        String email = possibleEmails.get(0);
        String[] parts = email.split("@");

        if (parts.length > 1)
            return parts[0];
    }
    return null;
}

Answer 4

This is quite the tricky thing to do in Android and I haven't done it yet. But maybe these links may help you:

• Android Issue 1073:Google Auth Tokens should be accessible to 3rd party applications through an API
• SDK API AccountManager in Andriod 2.x+

Answer 5

Add this single line in manifest (for permission)

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS" />

Then paste this code in your activity

private ArrayList<String> getPrimaryMailId() {
    ArrayList<String> accountsList = new ArrayList<String>();
    try {
        Account[] accounts = AccountManager.get(this).getAccountsByType("com.google");
        for (Account account : accounts) {
            accountsList.add(account.name);
            Log.e("GetPrimaryMailId ", account.name);
        }
    } catch (Exception e) {
        Log.e("GetPrimaryMailId", " Exception : " + e);
    }
    return accountsList;
}

Answer 6

This could be useful to others:

Using AccountPicker to get user's email address without any global permissions, and allowing the user to be aware and authorize or cancel the process.