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    <p>I'm writing a Bookmark manager app and I got kinda stuck when trying to resort the Bookmarks (the ones being used by the default Browser with contentProvider).</p> <p>I know I can query the Browser contentProvider and resort the data as I please (.TITLE + " ASC", .VISITS + " DESC", etc) but this will only sort the Bookmarks list shown on my app and not the actual Bookmarks shown on the Android Browser.</p> <p>There are several app which does that (sort the Browser bookmarks) on the Market, "Bookmark sort &amp; backup" for example so I know it's possible.</p> <p>Can anyone PLEASE give me a little direction on how this it possible? a line of code, a tutorial? anything will be appreciated!</p> <p>Thank you, Lior</p> <p><strong>UPDATE - Optional Solution:</strong> </p> <p>Android sort its bookmarks by a specific column from the Bookmarks database. The database is located in "Data -> Data -> com.android.browser -> databases -> browser.db". You can use ADB to get there or apps like Root Explorer.</p> <p>Android 2.2 sorts its Bookmarks according to "visits" column, therefore the most visited Bookmark will be placed first and so on.</p> <p>If you want to alter the sort order, you would have to update the "visits" column of each Bookmark. For example: if you want to sort the Bookmarks Alphabetically you need to update the "visits" column in such a way that Bookmarks starting with the letter "A" will have the highest value of "visits". Android.com Bookmark will get 1000 visits, BestBuy.com Bookmark will get 900 visits and so on.</p> <p><strong>Things to consider:</strong></p> <ul> <li>The total amount of Bookmarks (so you can determine the highest "visits" value, give it to the first Bookmark and subtract at least 1 visit from it for the second Bookmark).</li> <li>The Android Browser continues to increase the "visits" number every time a user enters the website. Because you can't predict how much times a user will click on a certain Bookmark and in order to maintain the sort order the user selected on your app - you must make sure the "visits" value Bookmark number 1 has is much bigger than "visits" value Bookmark number 2 has (I recommend at least 1000 difference).</li> </ul> <p>On previous Android versions, the sort is ordered by the "created" column. see here for example: <a href="http://www.netmite.com/android/mydroid/packages/apps/Browser/src/com/android/browser/BrowserBookmarksAdapter.java" rel="nofollow">http://www.netmite.com/android/mydroid/packages/apps/Browser/src/com/android/browser/BrowserBookmarksAdapter.java</a></p> <p>I hope this helps anyone ;)</p> <p>If you have different ideas/solutions, PLEASE share!</p>
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