I found the difference between the 2 APIs and it has nothing to do with the fact that one of the accounts is connected to Google+ or not People API will only fetch the contacts that are under the account “My contacts” contacts, while Contacts API will also fetch the other contacts lists (“Other contacts”, … Read more
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