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How to search contacts by name and phone number?

I am using Contacts.CONTENT_FILTER_URI to search for contacts.
Uri contentUri = Uri.withAppendedPath(
ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_FILTER_URI,
Uri.encode(searchString));
The searchstring can be either a number or a name. That works great.
My only problem is that the result does not contain a contact phone number.
I know that I can get it by querying ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI. However, I would like to find a solution that will give me a contact name and phone number with a single query.

You should use Phone.CONTENT_FILTER_URI instead of Contacts.CONTENT_FILTER_URI
Docs say:
The filter is applied to display names as well as phone numbers.
Try this:
Uri filterUri = Uri.withAppendedPath(Phone.CONTENT_FILTER_URI, Uri.encode(searchString));
String[] projection = new String[]{ Phone.CONTACT_ID, Phone.DISPLAY_NAME, Phone.NUMBER };
Cursor cur = getContentResolver().query(filterUri, projection, null, null, null);

How can I access ContactsContract Profile?

I tried to read the complete profile information such a (Full name, phone, adresse, mail .... ).
I have searched everywhere for a good example code. I tried many ways (Uri => Cursor) to access the Profile.
At this time I can fetch just the Full name (of the Profile contact), nothing more.
I can fetch data of other contacts using an Intent, sending to the Contacts app, BUT I CAN'T READ THE PROFILE CONTACT (JUST FULL NAME).
I have added the READ_PROFILE permission in the manifest file.
With the following code I get the Full Name (I can also access first and last name separately ):
Uri uriProfile = Uri.withAppendedPath(ContactsContract.Profile.CONTENT_URI,
ContactsContract.Contacts.Data.CONTENT_DIRECTORY);
Cursor cursorProfile = this.getContentResolver().query(uriProfile,
null, null, null, null);
String projection = Profile.DISPLAY_NAME;
String profileName = cursorProfile.getString(cursorProfile.getColumnIndex(projection);
But when I use this the following projection to get Phone Number, it returns an error and the app stops working:
String projection = ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER

I found a solution using this code:
Get an URI Profile
Crate a cursor pointing to the URI content with null projection. Because for the profile, data are saved differently than a normal contact.
Point the cursor to the wanted data using MIMETYPE.
Uri uriProfile = Uri.withAppendedPath(ContactsContract.Profile.CONTENT_URI,
ContactsContract.Contacts.Data.CONTENT_DIRECTORY);
Cursor cursorProfile = getApplicationContext().getContentResolver().query(uriProfile,
null, null, null, null);
String cursorProfile_MIMIETYPE = cursorProfile.getString(cursorProfile.getColumnIndex("MIMETYPE"));

getting notes from a single contact - android

I'm trying to get "notes" from a single contact. It added fine but retrieving it has been a problem.
String selection = ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.DISPLAY_NAME+" like'%" + sender +"%'";
String[] projection = new String[] { ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Note.NOTE};
Cursor c2 = getContentResolver().query(ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI, projection, selection, null, null);
if (c2.moveToFirst()) {
notes = c2.getString(0);
}
It works fine with other values like name or phone number but can't seem to get notes to retrieve correctly. It retrieves a random value like email instead.

I believe that your problem is that not all rows in the table represent contact types that have notes. You have to request the proper MIME Type.
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Note is an alias for the 'data1' column that is present on all rows, so when you get a row of a different MIME Type, it represents different data.
How to get contacts in Android should give you an idea of how to do this.

Get list of contacts matching a give set of phone numbers

I am trying to get the list of contacts matching a given set of phone numbers, can anyone suggest me how to do this in android.
e.g.Say I have 3 phone numbers [883338383 , 93939311 , 89898999] which are the inputs used to search. I need to get the list of contacts which match these numbers.

You can specify a URI and a query to get contact info with a phone number.
Uri contactUri = Uri.withAppendedPath(Contacts.Phones.CONTENT_FILTER_URL, Uri.encode(phoneNumber));
Cursor cursor = mContext.getContentResolver().query(contactUri, null, null, null, null);
The cursor returned by the code above should then contain the contact you are looking for you can parse it to get the info you need:
if(cursor.moveToFirst()){
int personIDIndex = cursor.getColumnIndex(Contacts.Phones.PERSON_ID);
//etc
}
If there is no contact with the given number, then the query will return null. So make sure t0 check the cursor for null value before you pares or you'll get a NullPointerException.

Android getting contacts photo from data.Email query

I am making a autocomplete Field that queries contacts by Display name and Email. When someone clicks on the desired contact after the filtering that contact is added to a list with his email, display name and Picture if he has any.
So so far i have managed to do everything except to make the Photo appear. Here is how i run the query to get the email, display name, ID , and Photo ID.
return mContent.query(Email.CONTENT_URI,
PROJECTION, filter, null, null);
where projection is:
PROJECTION = new String[] {ContactsContract.Contacts._ID,
ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME,
ContactsContract.Contacts.PHOTO_ID,
Email.DATA
};
This one does what i need and returns all the data. But one thing i noticed during debugging this issue is that the contact id is different than if you run the query against ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI for a specific display name for example.
For example the tests i have run where i get all the contacts by running the Contacts.CONTENT_URI gave me a contact with an image and Id of 152. However the query against the Email.CONTENT_URI gives me an id of 452 for the same contact (With same display name and email address). so when i try to get the Photo for a content uri containing the Id 452 it returns that the photo doesnt exist, but if i try to get the photo for 152 it works perfectly.
What is causing this issue? how do i get the correct User ID? Is there any relational query that i can maybe run to get a contact ID, or maybe a correct way to get it with the help of this one.
Thank you.
EDIT
I found this digging around old code. Might be helpful to anyone.
So the full query:
String[] PROJECTION = new String[] { ContactsContract.RawContacts._ID,
ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME, ContactsContract.Contacts.PHOTO_ID,
Email.DATA, ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Photo.CONTACT_ID };
String order = " CASE WHEN " + ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME
+ " NOT LIKE '%#%' THEN 1" + " ELSE 2 END, "
+ ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME + " COLLATE NOCASE";
String filter = Email.DATA + " NOT LIKE '' ) GROUP BY ( " + Email.DATA;
then its
getContentResolver().query( Email.CONTENT_URI, PROJECTION, filter, null, order);

When you want to access the photo of a contact, you need to specify the contact photo URI, for example using this method:
public Uri getContactPhotoUri(long contactId) {
Uri photoUri = ContentUris.withAppendedId(ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI, contactId);
photoUri = Uri.withAppendedPath(photoUri, ContactsContract.Contacts.Photo.CONTENT_DIRECTORY);
return photoUri;
}
But for contactId you must use:
String id = ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Photo.CONTACT_ID;
long contactId = Long.parseLong(id);
Please note that a common error is to use ContactsContract.Contacts._ID instead ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Photo.CONTACT_ID
I hope that can help you.

You should use RAW_CONTACT_ID in the query. For ex, there can be two different contacts i.e. different RAW_CONTACT_ID for a single CONTACT_ID.

maybe you can take a look at this blog post in the example there they query all contacts, email addresses and the contact photo
http://blog.app-solut.com/2011/03/working-with-the-contactscontract-to-query-contacts-in-android/

best code will be
Uri photoUri = ContentUris.withAppendedId(ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI, Id);
Bitmap photoBitmap;
ContentResolver cr = getContentResolver();
InputStream is = ContactsContract.Contacts.openContactPhotoInputStream(cr, photoUri);
photoBitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(is);
it works for all