Getting a system property in Android

AndroidGetPropSystem.java

public static String getPropSystem(String key) throws IOException {
	BufferedReader bis = null;
	try {
		Process ifc = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("getprop " + key);
		bis = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(ifc.getInputStream()));
		return bis.readLine();
	} finally {
		bis.close();
	}
}

It's like when you run "adb shell getprop {key}".