You need to create a SyncAdapter, this is basically a service that is able to sync contacts to/from a server, like Google does for Google Contacts, you can set it to be notified when a new contact is added, and have your SyncAdapter add the needed info to the contact so it’ll show links to … Read more
Got the reply from on the Google Group (http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/95110dd7a1e1e0b4): Access to Facebook friends via the contacts provider is restricted to a handful of system apps by the provider itself. Other applications cannot read that data. Therefore now I fetch an cache all contact names/id mappings via FB Graph api (http://graph.facebook.com/me/friends) and use that for the … Read more
How to get whatsapp Contacts from Android Programmatically?
ContentResolver cr = mContext.getContentResolver(); //Activity/Application android.content.Context Cursor cursor = cr.query(ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI, null, null, null, null); if(cursor.moveToFirst()) { ArrayList<String> alContacts = new ArrayList<String>(); do { String id = cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts._ID)); if(Integer.parseInt(cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts.HAS_PHONE_NUMBER))) > 0) { Cursor pCur = cr.query(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI,null,ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTACT_ID +” = ?”,new String[]{ id }, null); while (pCur.moveToNext()) { String contactNumber = pCur.getString(pCur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER)); alContacts.add(contactNumber); break; } pCur.close(); } } … Read more
In your code, you wrote one function but from where is this function called? And what is the meaning of get(View view) function? This function is not being called so it can be removed. I’ve edited my answer as per your requirements and tested it with 500 Contacts to save a single vCard file with … Read more
You can choose whether you want to add the contact automatically, or open the add contact activity with pre-filled data: /** * Open the add-contact screen with pre-filled info * * @param context * Activity context * @param person * {@link Person} to add to contacts list */ public static void addAsContactConfirmed(final Context context, final … Read more
Try following code it will help you: // You need below permission to read contacts <uses-permission android:name=”android.permission.READ_CONTACTS”/> // Declare static final int PICK_CONTACT=1; Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK, ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI); startActivityForResult(intent, PICK_CONTACT); //code @Override public void onActivityResult(int reqCode, int resultCode, Intent data) { super.onActivityResult(reqCode, resultCode, data); switch (reqCode) { case (PICK_CONTACT) : if (resultCode == Activity.RESULT_OK) … Read more
Although this has already been answered, but here is the complete function to get the contact name from number. Hope it will help others: public static String getContactName(Context context, String phoneNumber) { ContentResolver cr = context.getContentResolver(); Uri uri = Uri.withAppendedPath(PhoneLookup.CONTENT_FILTER_URI, Uri.encode(phoneNumber)); Cursor cursor = cr.query(uri, new String[]{PhoneLookup.DISPLAY_NAME}, null, null, null); if (cursor == null) { … Read more
Here I go answering my own question (if anyone has a better answer, don’t be shy). There’s no broadcast when a contact is added/changed. However, when you look up your contacts in the RawContacts table you have a DIRTY column which is 1 if the contact was changed since the last sync, which is pretty … Read more
The Android people need to update their documentation. It actually served to make me know less about what was happening than I would have gotten from guessing. It suggests that you can pull back a Contact, which will contain many RawContacts which will contain Data. That interpretation is completely wrong. ContactContracts data is instead three … Read more