diff --git a/AndroidManifest.xml b/AndroidManifest.xml
index f113f2f8bd3..1d85a8d3df0 100644
--- a/AndroidManifest.xml
+++ b/AndroidManifest.xml
@@ -3679,6 +3679,11 @@
             </intent-filter>
         </provider>
 
+        <provider
+            android:name=".activityembedding.ActivityEmbeddingProvider"
+            android:authorities="com.android.settings.activityembedding"
+            android:exported="true"/>
+
         <activity
             android:name=".wifi.dpp.WifiDppConfiguratorActivity"
             android:exported="true">
diff --git a/src/com/android/settings/activityembedding/ActivityEmbeddingProvider.java b/src/com/android/settings/activityembedding/ActivityEmbeddingProvider.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..7585dce5b5f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/com/android/settings/activityembedding/ActivityEmbeddingProvider.java
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2021 The Android Open Source Project
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package com.android.settings.activityembedding;
+
+import android.content.ContentProvider;
+import android.content.ContentValues;
+import android.database.Cursor;
+import android.net.Uri;
+import android.os.Bundle;
+import android.text.TextUtils;
+
+/**
+ * A content provider for querying the state of activity embedding feature
+ */
+public class ActivityEmbeddingProvider extends ContentProvider {
+
+    private static final String METHOD_IS_EMBEDDING_ACTIVITY_ENABLED = "isEmbeddingActivityEnabled";
+    private static final String EXTRA_ENABLED_STATE = "enabled_state";
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean onCreate() {
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Bundle call(String method, String arg, Bundle extras) {
+        if (TextUtils.equals(method, METHOD_IS_EMBEDDING_ACTIVITY_ENABLED)) {
+            final Bundle bundle = new Bundle();
+            bundle.putBoolean(EXTRA_ENABLED_STATE,
+                    ActivityEmbeddingUtils.isEmbeddingActivityEnabled(getContext()));
+            return bundle;
+        }
+        return null;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Cursor query(Uri uri, String[] projection, String selection, String[] selectionArgs,
+            String sortOrder) {
+        throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String getType(Uri uri) {
+        throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Uri insert(Uri uri, ContentValues values) {
+        throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int delete(Uri uri, String selection, String[] selectionArgs) {
+        throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int update(Uri uri, ContentValues values, String selection, String[] selectionArgs) {
+        throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
+    }
+}