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How to receive local contacts with emai addresses using the content resolver

I am developing an Android app and want to receive my local contacts. To be exact I want to display all contacts which have an email address. My current approach looks like this
import android.provider.ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email;
import android.provider.ContactsContract.Contacts;
import android.provider.ContactsContract.Data;
private static final String[] CONTACT_PROJECTION = new String[] {
Email.CONTACT_ID,
Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME_PRIMARY,
Email.ADDRESS,
};
Cursor data = mResolver.query(Data.CONTENT_URI,
CONTACT_PROJECTION,
Data.MIMETYPE + "='" + Email.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE + "'",
null, Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME_PRIMARY + " ASC");
The problem using this query is, that the result contains rows that doesn't match a contact in my local address book. Probably I used those email addresses before but didn't saved it to my address book.
I have already tried another approach where I made a query on Contacts.CONTENT_URI with Contacts._ID. This id is used as a foreign key to match the contacts in a second query against their emails. The solution was a nested cursor and the runtime was really slow. For a hundred contacts the query took more than two seconds to match. This is a reason for using the async CursorLoader but I want to avoid it if possible.
Any suggestions? Thanks in advance
#Edit 1:
Unfortunately both solutions don't archive the desired improvement.
For example, when I write a new email to a previous unknown address with my gmail app afterwards the address shows up in both querys with an contact id but not in my normal address book. This kind of "contacts" flood my query.
Could it be related to the value of ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.TYPE?
#Edit 2:
I found an interesting flag Contacts.IN_VISIBLE_GROUP + "=1". It seems to filter the unwanted addresses.
Has somebody any experience with it? I don't want to filter to much.

This is what I am using in my app:
public void readContacts(){
ContentResolver cr = getContentResolver();
Cursor cur = cr.query(ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI,
null, null, null, null);
if (cur.getCount() > 0) {
while (cur.moveToNext()) {
String id = cur.getString(cur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts._ID));
String name = cur.getString(cur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME));
if (Integer.parseInt(cur.getString(cur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts.HAS_PHONE_NUMBER))) > 0) {
System.out.println("name : " + name + ", ID : " + id);
// get the phone number
Cursor pCur = cr.query(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI,null,
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTACT_ID +" = ?",
new String[]{id}, null);
while (pCur.moveToNext()) {
String phone = pCur.getString(
pCur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER));
System.out.println("phone" + phone);
}
pCur.close();
// get email and type
Cursor emailCur = cr.query(
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.CONTENT_URI,
null,
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.CONTACT_ID + " = ?",
new String[]{id}, null);
while (emailCur.moveToNext()) {
// This would allow you get several email addresses
// if the email addresses were stored in an array
String email = emailCur.getString(
emailCur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.DATA));
String emailType = emailCur.getString(
emailCur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.TYPE));
System.out.println("Email " + email + " Email Type : " + emailType);
}
emailCur.close();
}
}
}
}

I have attached one of the functions used in my project. Point of intrest would be selection and selection args.
Snippet
selection = ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.DATA + " != ?";
selectionArgs = new String[]{""};
This says selection is based on email data and it should not be null.
Similarly you can add any of the selection params as per your need.
Entire Function
public Cursor getInitCursorLoader() {
String[] PROJECTION = null;
String selection = null;
String[] selectionArgs = new String[0];
String order = null;
Uri contentURI = null;
switch (mFriendType) {
case EMAIL:
PROJECTION = new String[]{
ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME,
ContactsContract.Contacts._ID,
ContactsContract.Contacts.PHOTO_ID,
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.TIMES_CONTACTED,
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.DATA};
selection = ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.DATA + " != ?";
selectionArgs = new String[]{""};
contentURI = ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.CONTENT_URI;
order = ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.TIMES_CONTACTED + " DESC";
break;
case SMS:
PROJECTION = new String[]{
ContactsContract.Contacts._ID,
ContactsContract.Contacts.PHOTO_ID,
ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME,
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.TIMES_CONTACTED,
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER,
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.TYPE};
selection = ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.TYPE + " = ?";
selectionArgs = new String[]{String.valueOf(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.TYPE_MOBILE)};
contentURI = ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI;
order = ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.TIMES_CONTACTED + " DESC";
break;
}
return mContext.getContentResolver().query(contentURI, PROJECTION, selection, selectionArgs, order);
}

How to actually search for a song in a mediastore cursor using a string

I have set up the cursor but I am still struggling with actually searching it. How do I search for the track name? How do I get its ID so I can pass it to mediaplayer? I have tried different things but didn't succeed.
Basically, I want to know how to search the mediastore for a certain string (string songToPlay in this case), get the results, get the ID of the best match and pass it to my mediaplayer service to play it in the background. The only thing I am asking you is how to get the ID though.
This is the code I am using:
Uri uri = MediaStore.Audio.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI;
String[] songToPlay = value.split("play song");
String[] searchWords = songToPlay[1].split(" ");
String [] keywords = null;
StringBuilder where = new StringBuilder();
where.append(MediaStore.Audio.Media.TITLE + " != ''");
String selection = where.toString();
String[] projection = {
BaseColumns._ID,
MediaStore.Audio.Media.MIME_TYPE,
MediaStore.Audio.Artists.ARTIST,
MediaStore.Audio.Albums.ALBUM,
MediaStore.Audio.Media.TITLE
};
for (int i = 0; i < searchWords.length; i++) {
keywords[i] = '%' + MediaStore.Audio.keyFor(searchWords[i]) + '%';
}
Cursor cursor = this.managedQuery(uri, projection, selection, keywords, MediaStore.Audio.Media.TITLE);
if (cursor.moveToFirst()) {
do{
test.setText(cursor.getString(cursor
.getColumnIndex(MediaStore.Audio.Media.DISPLAY_NAME)));
}while(cursor.moveToNext());
}
I'm very confused and most of this code is from the internet. I have been trying to do this for 2 days now, that's why I'm asking here. I've done hours of trying by myself.
edit: Current code. How am I supposed to find the location - music ID or whatever I need to play that song from the cursor?
Uri uri = MediaStore.Audio.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI;
String songToPlay = value.replaceAll("play song", "").trim();
int music_column_index;
String[] projection = {
MediaStore.Audio.Media._ID,
MediaStore.Audio.Artists.ARTIST,
MediaStore.Audio.Albums.ALBUM,
MediaStore.Audio.Media.TITLE
};
#SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
Cursor cursor = this.managedQuery(uri,
null,
MediaStore.Audio.Media.TITLE + "=?",
new String[]{songToPlay},
MediaStore.Audio.Media.TITLE + " ASC");

This will search the MediaStore for all songs with title equal to the value of your songToPlay string.
Cursor cursor = getContentResolver().query(
MediaStore.Audio.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI,
null,
MediaStore.Audio.Media.TITLE + "=?",
new String[]{songToPlay},
MediaStore.Audio.Media.TITLE + " ASC");
You can then of course query the cursor to get the ID (and any other column) of any results.
while (cursor.moveToNext()) {
String path = cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex(MediaStore.Audio.Media.DATA));
long id = cursor.getLong(cursor.getColumnIndex(MediaStore.Audio.Media._ID));
// Whatever else you need
}
However this will require an exact match, you may like to use the LIKE operator for a more fuzzy match.

Android - Find a contact by display name

I'm trying to find a contact by display name. The goal is to open this contact and add more data to it (specifically more phone numbers), but I'm struggling to even find the contact I want to update.
This is the code I'm using:
public static String findContact(Context context) {
ContentResolver contentResolver = context.getContentResolver();
Uri uri = ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_FILTER_URI;
String[] projection = new String[] { PhoneLookup._ID };
String selection = ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.DISPLAY_NAME + " = ?";
String[] selectionArguments = { "John Johnson" };
Cursor cursor = contentResolver.query(uri, projection, selection, selectionArguments, null);
if (cursor != null) {
while (cursor.moveToNext()) {
return cursor.getString(0);
}
}
return "John Johnson not found";
}
I do have a contact called "John Johnson", but the method always returns "not found". I also tried searching for a contact with just one name, so that makes no difference.
I suspect that it's something wrong with the uri, selection or selection arguments, because I couldn't find any example online of searching for contacts with a given display name, and it seems display name is a special kind of information, different from for example a phone number.
Any ideas how I can achieve to find John Johnson?
UPDATE: I found out how to find a contact by display name:
ContentResolver contentResolver = context.getContentResolver();
Uri uri = Data.CONTENT_URI;
String[] projection = new String[] { PhoneLookup._ID };
String selection = StructuredName.DISPLAY_NAME + " = ?";
String[] selectionArguments = { "John Johnson" };
Cursor cursor = contentResolver.query(uri, projection, selection, selectionArguments, null);
if (cursor != null) {
while (cursor.moveToNext()) {
return cursor.getString(0);
}
}
return "John Johnson not found";
This code returns the contact id of the first contact with display name "John Johnson". In my original code I had the wrong uri and the wrong selection in my query.

I thinks the issue may caused by the projection you set. Projection is used to tell android which column of data you want to query then you only give the id column so the display name won't return. Try to remove the projection to see whether it works.
-- Cursor cursor = contentResolver.query(uri, projection, selection, selectionArguments, null);
++ Cursor cursor = contentResolver.query(uri, null, selection, selectionArguments, null);

Change Your Query URI.
You are using a URI that is meant to filter only phones numbers:
Uri uri = ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_FILTER_URI;
You need to use a URI that has access to the display_name column, like this:
Uri uri = ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI;
There's a decent breakdown of what URIs to use and when to use them on the Android SDK Documentation:
If you need to read an individual contact, consider using CONTENT_LOOKUP_URI instead of CONTENT_URI.
If you need to look up a contact by the phone number, use PhoneLookup.CONTENT_FILTER_URI, which is optimized for this purpose.
If you need to look up a contact by partial name, e.g. to produce filter-as-you-type suggestions, use the CONTENT_FILTER_URI URI.
If you need to look up a contact by some data element like email address, nickname, etc, use a query against the ContactsContract.Data table. The result will contain contact ID, name etc.

//method for gaining id
//this method get a name and make fetch it's id and then send the id to other method //named "showinformation" and that method print information of that contact
public void id_return(String name) {
String id_name=null;
Uri resultUri = ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI;
Cursor cont = getContentResolver().query(resultUri, null, null, null, null);
String whereName = ContactsContract.Data.MIMETYPE + " = ? AND " + ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredName.DISPLAY_NAME + " = ?" ;
String[] whereNameParams = new String[] { ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredName.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE,name};
Cursor nameCur = getContentResolver().query(ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI, null, whereName, whereNameParams, ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredName.GIVEN_NAME);
while (nameCur.moveToNext()) {
id_name = nameCur.getString(nameCur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredName.CONTACT_ID));}
nameCur.close();
cont.close();
nameCur.close();
//for calling of following method
showinformation(id_name);
}
//method for showing information like name ,phone, email and other thing you want
public void showinformation(String id) {
String name=null;
String phone=null;
String email=null;
Uri resultUri = ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI;
Cursor cont = getContentResolver().query(resultUri, null, null, null, null);
String whereName = ContactsContract.Data.MIMETYPE + " = ? AND " + ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredName.CONTACT_ID+ " = ?" ;
String[] whereNameParams1 = new String[] { ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredName.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE,id};
Cursor nameCur1 = getContentResolver().query(ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI, null, whereName, whereNameParams1, ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredName.GIVEN_NAME);
while (nameCur1.moveToNext()) {
name = nameCur1.getString(nameCur1.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredName.DISPLAY_NAME));}
nameCur1.close();
cont.close();
nameCur1.close();
String[] whereNameParams2 = new String[] { ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE,id};
Cursor nameCur2 = getContentResolver().query(ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI, null, whereName, whereNameParams2, ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredName.GIVEN_NAME);
while (nameCur2.moveToNext()) {
phone = nameCur2.getString(nameCur2.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER));}
nameCur2.close();
cont.close();
nameCur2.close();
String[] whereNameParams3 = new String[] { ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE,id};
Cursor nameCur3 = getContentResolver().query(ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI, null, whereName, whereNameParams3, ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredName.GIVEN_NAME);
while (nameCur3.moveToNext()) {
email = nameCur3.getString(nameCur3.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.DATA));}
nameCur3.close();
cont.close();
nameCur3.close();
String[] whereNameParams4 = new String[] { ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredPostal.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE,id};
Cursor nameCur4 = getContentResolver().query(ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI, null, whereName, whereNameParams4, ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredPostal.DATA);
while (nameCur4.moveToNext()) {
phone = nameCur4.getString(nameCur4.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredPostal.DATA));}
nameCur4.close();
cont.close();
nameCur4.close();
//showing result
txadd.setText("Name= "+ name+"\nPhone= "+phone+"\nEmail= "+email);
}
//thank all persons in this site because of many help of me to learn and correction my warn and errors this is only a gift for all of you and ...

The below code should do the trick
if (displayName != null) {
Uri lookupUri = Uri.withAppendedPath(ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_FILTER_URI, Uri.encode(displayName));
String[] displayNameProjection = { ContactsContract.Contacts._ID, ContactsContract.Contacts.LOOKUP_KEY, Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB ? ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME_PRIMARY : ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME };
Cursor cur = context.getContentResolver().query(lookupUri, displayNameProjection, null, null, null);
try {
if (cur.moveToFirst()) {
return true;
}
} finally {
if (cur != null)
cur.close();
}
return false;
} else {
return false;
}
Reference: Retrieving a List of Contacts Article

Problem in ContactsContract API android

i have an HTC legend.In its phone contacts it shows 4-5 contacts.But when i query it in my application it shows nearly 45 contacts.I think its gmail contacts.
String[] Projection = new String[] { ContactsContract.Contacts._ID,
ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME,
ContactsContract.Contacts.PHOTO_ID,
ContactsContract.Contacts.HAS_PHONE_NUMBER,
ContactsContract.Contacts.STARRED};
Cursor cursor = managedQuery(ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI, Projection, null, null, null);
I am getting all the details with photo as well in a listview. Now i need to get particular contact details like all his phone numbers,emails,photo etc.For this i am writing this query
final String[] projection = new String[] {
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTACT_ID,
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.TYPE,
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER,
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.IS_PRIMARY,
};
final Cursor phone = managedQuery(
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI,
projection,
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTACT_ID + "=?",
new String[]{contactId},
null);
> if(phone.moveToFirst()) {
> final int contactNumberColumnIndex =
> phone.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER);
> final int contactTypeColumnIndex =
> phone.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.TYPE);
i am getting all the details of the phone contact but not all other contacts.
i have read that all these details are stored in shared table(ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI), but i am not getting exactly what to do go get this done.
Can someone help me figure out how to do this.
Thanks

You can do something like:
getContentResolver().query(
RawContactsEntity.CONTENT_URI,
// projection
new String[] {
BaseColumns._ID,
RawContactsEntity.MIMETYPE,
// DATA columns are interpreted according to MIMETYPE
// Project only union of data columns needed
RawContactsEntity.DATA1,
RawContactsEntity.DATA2,
RawContactsEntity.DATA3,
RawContactsEntity.DATA4,
RawContactsEntity.DATA7,
RawContactsEntity.DATA9,
RawContactsEntity.DATA10,
},
// selection
RawContactsEntity.DELETED + "<>1 AND " +
RawContactsEntity.MIMETYPE + " IN ('" +
StructuredName.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE + "','" +
Email.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE + "','" +
Phone.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE + "','" +
StructuredPostal.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE + "','" +
Organization.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE + "')",
// selection params
null,
// sorting
null);
Next iterate through cursor, and first read MIME type:
final String mimeType = cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex(
RawContactsEntity.MIMETYPE));
And depends on MIME type read corresponding data kind:
if (StructuredName.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE.equals(mimeType)) {
readNameData(cursor);
} else if (Email.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE.equals(mimeType)) {
addEmailData(cursor);
}
and so on.

How to get "Internet Call" Information in Android

I'm working on android application in which I take backup of all contact information and then restore, I retrieve all information of contact,
For example:
Display Name
Cursor cursor = getContentResolver().query(ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI,null,null, null, null)
String name = cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndexOrThrow(ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME));
Phone Number
Cursor phones = getContentResolver().query(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI, null,ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTACT_ID +" = "+ contactId,null, null);
Similary
But I unable to get "Internet Call" value.
Kindly anyone tell in which class I will get information about Internet Call information.

Dont know if this is the best way, but it worked, I am fairly new new to android.
Uri uri = ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI;
String[] projection = new String[] {
ContactsContract.Data._ID,
ContactsContract.Data.DISPLAY_NAME,
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.SipAddress.SIP_ADDRESS,
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.SipAddress.TYPE,
};
String selection =
ContactsContract.Data.MIMETYPE+" ='"
+ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.SipAddress.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE+"'";
String[] selectionArgs = null;
String sortOrder = ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME+ " COLLATE LOCALIZED ASC";
Cursor cursor = managedQuery(uri, projection, selection, selectionArgs, sortOrder);
It seems that the phone number is stored in misc information data and you have search on the mime type.
HTH
g.

i have tested. i am able to get internet call value. try below code.
Uri uri = ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI;
ContentResolver cr = getContentResolver();
Cursor cur=cr.query(uri, null, null, null, sortOrder);
if(cur.getCount()>0){
while(cur.moveToNext()){
if(Integer.parseInt(cur.getString(cur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts.HAS_PHONE_NUMBER)))> 0) {
String internetWhere = ContactsContract.Data.CONTACT_ID + " = ? AND " + ContactsContract.Data.MIMETYPE + " = ?";
String[] internetWhereParams = new String[]{id,ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.SipAddress.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE};
Cursor internetCur = cr.query(ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI, null, internetWhere, internetWhereParams, null);
if (internetCur.moveToFirst()) {
String internetCall = internetCur.getString(internetCur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.SipAddress.SIP_ADDRESS));
Log.e(TAG, "internet Call: " + internetCall);
} internetCur.close();
}
}
} cur.close();