Thanks for your help Mark. For anyone that's interested, here's a
code snippet.
private static String manufacturer = null;
public static String getDeviceManufacturer() throws Exception {
// use reflection to get device manufacturer safely.
// ANDROID1.6
// android.os.Build.MANUFACTURER
if (manufacturer != null) {
return manufacturer;
}
try {
Class<android.os.Build> buildClass =
android.os.Build.class;
Field field = buildClass.getField("MANUFACTURER");
manufacturer = (String) field.get(new
android.os.Build());
} catch (NoSuchFieldException e) {
manufacturer = "(unavailable)";
} catch (Exception e) {
manufacturer = "error";
}
return manufacturer;
}
and it seemed to work.
On Nov 11, 12:04 pm, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote:
> sdphil wrote:
> > hm... looks like I should use this --
> >http://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/reflect/Field.html
>
> Yes. The only tricky part may be getting it for a static. I haven't done
> tons of reflection work, so I don't have examples to show you of this
> specific problem.
>
> On the plus side, you can do the reflection work itself in a static
> context, so you only go through the reflection once.
>
> > also, I don't think a try/catch will work - the java pre-verifier will
> > choke before it gets to running it... eh?
>
> Yup!
>
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