[android-developers] Re: Checking the user's country
Thanks Roman, very helpful. Actually, it turns out that the dynamic method is what I need after all. best wishes, Anna On Sep 12, 3:24 am, Roman ( T-Mobile USA) roman.baumgaert...@t- mobile.com wrote: What do you mean with user's country? Static methods: - You could use the phone number which is assigned to you. The phone number starts with the country code. - Also the IMEI has information about in which country your phone was approved/registered. Dynamic method based on your cellular connection (which you are not interested in): If you try to get information to which MNC-MCC you are connected use the TelephonyManager.getNetworkOperator() API. The MCC (mobile country code) is the information you are looking for. You can lookup which MCC code belongs to which country athttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mobile_country_codes. -- Roman Baumgaertner Sr. SW Engineer-OSDC ·T· · ·Mobile· stick together The views, opinions and statements in this email are those of the author solely in their individual capacity, and do not necessarily represent those of T-Mobile USA, Inc. On Sep 11, 9:49 am, Anna PS annapowellsm...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Anyone know how to check the user's country? I'm looking for a way that's faster than using GPS and reverse geocoding. (I need the country where the phone is registered, not their current location, in any case.) Is there any constant in the settings? Thanks, Anna --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: Checking the user's country
What do you mean with user's country? Static methods: - You could use the phone number which is assigned to you. The phone number starts with the country code. - Also the IMEI has information about in which country your phone was approved card was approved. Dynamic method based on your cellular connection: If you try to get information to which MNC-MCC you are connected use the TelephonyManager.getNetworkOperator() API. The MCC (mobile country code) is the information you are looking for. You can lookup which MCC code belongs to which country at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mobile_country_codes. -- Roman Baumgaertner Sr. SW Engineer-OSDC ·T· · ·Mobile· stick together The views, opinions and statements in this email are those of the author solely in their individual capacity, and do not necessarily represent those of T-Mobile USA, Inc. On Sep 11, 9:49 am, Anna PS annapowellsm...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Anyone know how to check the user's country? I'm looking for a way that's faster than using GPS and reverse geocoding. (I need the country where the phone is registered, not their current location, in any case.) Is there any constant in the settings? Thanks, Anna --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: Checking the user's country
What do you mean with user's country? Static methods: - You could use the phone number which is assigned to you. The phone number starts with the country code. - Also the IMEI has information about in which country your phone was approved/registered. Dynamic method based on your cellular connection (which you are not interested in): If you try to get information to which MNC-MCC you are connected use the TelephonyManager.getNetworkOperator() API. The MCC (mobile country code) is the information you are looking for. You can lookup which MCC code belongs to which country at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mobile_country_codes. -- Roman Baumgaertner Sr. SW Engineer-OSDC ·T· · ·Mobile· stick together The views, opinions and statements in this email are those of the author solely in their individual capacity, and do not necessarily represent those of T-Mobile USA, Inc. On Sep 11, 9:49 am, Anna PS annapowellsm...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Anyone know how to check the user's country? I'm looking for a way that's faster than using GPS and reverse geocoding. (I need the country where the phone is registered, not their current location, in any case.) Is there any constant in the settings? Thanks, Anna --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: Checking the user's country
Wow, I thought the getDisplayCountry() and getCountry() methods on the Locale instance returned by java.util.Locale.getDefault() might be helpful, but on my G1 they return the empty String when the phone's Settings-Locale text-Select locale setting is set to Spanish. Returns the US when set to English at least. Surprised me because the emulator has a list of languages and countries for that setting and the methods return what's selected. Too bad. On Sep 11, 12:49 pm, Anna PS annapowellsm...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Anyone know how to check the user's country? I'm looking for a way that's faster than using GPS and reverse geocoding. (I need the country where the phone is registered, not their current location, in any case.) Is there any constant in the settings? Thanks, Anna --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
