How to auto fill the email edittext with the email id by which the device is registered

Question

I want to auto-complete an emailId EditText with the gmail-id registered with the device. e.g if my phone is registered with the gmail id sd@gmail.com then it should be auto completed as i start typing "s". Any Ideas??? Thanks...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2112965/how-to-get-the-android-devices-primary-e-mail-address — ingsaurabh, Mar 16 '12 at 07:20
in your app it has to auto complete your registered email ?? — Yugandhar Babu, Mar 16 '12 at 07:20
Just an idea. once you get the id, instead of auto-fill why don't you set it as a hint? U can use setHint() — Shubhayu, Mar 16 '12 at 07:34
yes @shubhayu thats good one. but you cannot select hint. so when you click on hint it disappears. So i made an ArrayAdapter out of these results and took AutoCompleteTextView instead of EditText. Now works as expected. — Shashank Degloorkar, Mar 17 '12 at 05:54

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 20 '15 at 09:57

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You have to go through Android AccountManager class:

AccountManager manager = (AccountManager) getSystemService(ACCOUNT_SERVICE); 
Account[] list = manager.getAccounts();

and also need to add required permissions to AndroidManifest file:

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

From there you can autofill info.

edited Jul 20 '15 at 09:57

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answered Mar 16 '12 at 07:20

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@Dallas Substantially editing the content of someone else's answer is not appropriate. You may post your content as a new separate answer. Rolling this answer back, do not repeat it. – nobody May 27 '14 at 15:12
@AndrewMedico you should probably roll back to the version prior to the major edit, then, as that one had spelling/grammar/syntax fixes. – Dallas May 27 '14 at 19:30

score 4 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 08 '12 at 09:04

Firstly set this permission in your AndroidManifest.xml file

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

The Java code:

//declaration

String possibleEmail="";

//onCreate

EditText emailEdt=new EditText(this);

 Account[] accounts = AccountManager.get(this).getAccounts();
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.
    possibleEmail = account.name;

}
emailEdt.setText(possibleEmail);

How to auto fill the email edittext with the email id by which the device is registered

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