How to get Country (or its ISO code)?

Question

What is the best way to get country code? As of now I know two ways one is to get by TelephonyManager and another by Locale which is the other best & unique way to find country code in android.

Answer 1

            TelephonyManager tm = (TelephonyManager)getSystemService(getApplicationContext().TELEPHONY_SERVICE);
          String countryCode = tm.getNetworkCountryIso();

It is better than getSimCountryIsobecause getSimCountryIso depends on the operator to burn the country iso on the SIM and it also supports CDMA networks.

Answer 2

There is an excellent article by Reto Meier: http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/06/deep-dive-into-location.html

It describes different techniques to get location of an android device, including source code. Next, when you have location, it's easy to get country for it - use can use online web-service or offline database

Answer 3

Here is a complete example. Try to get country code from TelephonyManager (from SIM or CDMA devices), and if not available try to get it from local configuration.

private static String getDeviceCountryCode(Context context) {
    String countryCode;

    // try to get country code from TelephonyManager service
    TelephonyManager tm = (TelephonyManager) context.getSystemService(Context.TELEPHONY_SERVICE);
    if(tm != null) {
        // query first getSimCountryIso()
        countryCode = tm.getSimCountryIso();
        if (countryCode != null && countryCode.length() == 2)
            return countryCode.toLowerCase();

        if (tm.getPhoneType() == TelephonyManager.PHONE_TYPE_CDMA) {
            // special case for CDMA Devices
            countryCode = getCDMACountryIso();
        } else {
            // for 3G devices (with SIM) query getNetworkCountryIso()
            countryCode = tm.getNetworkCountryIso();
        }

        if (countryCode != null && countryCode.length() == 2)
            return countryCode.toLowerCase();
    }

    // if network country not available (tablets maybe), get country code from Locale class
    if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.N) {
        countryCode = context.getResources().getConfiguration().getLocales().get(0).getCountry();
    } else {
        countryCode = context.getResources().getConfiguration().locale.getCountry();
    }

    if (countryCode != null && countryCode.length() == 2)
        return  countryCode.toLowerCase();

    // general fallback to "us"
    return "us";
}

@SuppressLint("PrivateApi")
private static String getCDMACountryIso() {
    try {
        // try to get country code from SystemProperties private class
        Class<?> systemProperties = Class.forName("android.os.SystemProperties");
        Method get = systemProperties.getMethod("get", String.class);

        // get homeOperator that contain MCC + MNC
        String homeOperator = ((String) get.invoke(systemProperties,
                "ro.cdma.home.operator.numeric"));

        // first 3 chars (MCC) from homeOperator represents the country code
        int mcc = Integer.parseInt(homeOperator.substring(0, 3));

        // mapping just countries that actually use CDMA networks
        switch (mcc) {
            case 330: return "PR";
            case 310: return "US";
            case 311: return "US";
            case 312: return "US";
            case 316: return "US";
            case 283: return "AM";
            case 460: return "CN";
            case 455: return "MO";
            case 414: return "MM";
            case 619: return "SL";
            case 450: return "KR";
            case 634: return "SD";
            case 434: return "UZ";
            case 232: return "AT";
            case 204: return "NL";
            case 262: return "DE";
            case 247: return "LV";
            case 255: return "UA";
        }
    } catch (ClassNotFoundException ignored) {
    } catch (NoSuchMethodException ignored) {
    } catch (IllegalAccessException ignored) {
    } catch (InvocationTargetException ignored) {
    } catch (NullPointerException ignored) {
    }

    return null;
}

Also another idea is to try an API request like in this answer, or to use fine location.

References here and here