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What is the default Account Type / Name for contacts on Android Contact Application?

I couldn’t find the way to get the SIM account yet. But I’m using the code below to get the default account name and type. public void getDefaultAccountNameAndType() { String accountType = “”; String accountName = “”; long rawContactId = 0; Uri rawContactUri = null; ContentProviderResult[] results = null; ArrayList<ContentProviderOperation> ops = new ArrayList<ContentProviderOperation>(); ops.add(ContentProviderOperation.newInsert(RawContacts.CONTENT_URI).withValue(RawContacts.ACCOUNT_NAME, … Read more

Retrieve Contact Phone Number From URI in Android

I found the answer. The reason I was not getting any rows from the cursor was because I was using the line ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTACT_ID “The id of the row in the Contacts table that this data belongs to.” Since I was getting the URI from contacts table anyways — this was not needed and the following … Read more

Android: Retrieve contact name from phone number

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

Modifying contact information

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

Android contacts Display Name and Phone Number(s) in single database query?

Try this code: Uri uri = ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI; String[] projection = new String[] {ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.DISPLAY_NAME, ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER}; Cursor people = getContentResolver().query(uri, projection, null, null, null); int indexName = people.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.DISPLAY_NAME); int indexNumber = people.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER); if(people.moveToFirst()) { do { String name = people.getString(indexName); String number = people.getString(indexNumber); // Do work… } while (people.moveToNext()); }

How do I load a contact Photo?

This works for me: public static Bitmap loadContactPhoto(ContentResolver cr, long id) { Uri uri = ContentUris.withAppendedId(ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI, id); InputStream input = ContactsContract.Contacts.openContactPhotoInputStream(cr, uri); if (input == null) { return null; } return BitmapFactory.decodeStream(input); }

get contact info from android contact picker

Phone Numbers Phone numbers are stored in their own table and need to be queried separately. To query the phone number table use the URI stored in the SDK variable ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI. Use a WHERE conditional to get the phone numbers for the specified contact. if (Integer.parseInt(cur.getString( cur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts.HAS_PHONE_NUMBER))) > 0) { Cursor pCur = cr.query( ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI, … Read more