How to obtain all details of a contact in Android

Had to change a bit of the tutorial on Content Providers since it referenced deprecated classes, this might help.

import android.provider.ContactsContract.Contacts;
import android.database.Cursor;

// Form an array specifying which columns to return, you can add more.
String[] projection = new String[] {
                         ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME,
                         ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone
                         ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email
                      };

Uri contacts =  ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_LOOKUP_URI;
// id of the Contact to return.
long id = 3;

// Make the query. 
Cursor managedCursor = managedQuery(contacts,
                     projection, // Which columns to return 
                     null,       // Which rows to return (all rows)
                                 // Selection arguments (with a given ID)
                     ContactsContract.Contacts._ID = "id", 
                                 // Put the results in ascending order by name
                     ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME + " ASC");

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