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How to fetch only phone number contacts from Android device

I am following this example retrieve list of contacts to retrieve contacts from android device.
It gives all the contacts which includes email contacts and some empty contacts.
I tried modifying ContactsContract like ContactsContract.Contacts.HAS_PHONE_NUMBERin the projection and selection to get mobile contacts but nothing worked out.
String[] PROJECTION = {ContactsContract.Contacts._ID,ContactsContract.Contacts.LOOKUP_KEY,
ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME,ContactsContract.Contacts._ID,
SORT_ORDER,ContactsContract.Contacts.HAS_PHONE_NUMBER};
String SELECTION =
 ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME +
 "<>''" + " AND "ContactsContract.Contacts.IN_VISIBLE_GROUP + "=1";
Any idea to get only contacts which has mobile numbers?

I have created this library to solve all your queries. It will only save contacts with at least one email or phone number. Also it will remove duplicates from emails and phone numbers from same contacts (created by 3rd party apps like whatsapp).
Suggestions are welcome.
Link : https://github.com/raghavsatyadev/ContactFetcher/

You can use this code to get all contact names and numbers
Cursor phones = getContentResolver().query(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI, null,null,null, null);
while (phones.moveToNext())
{
String contactName=phones.getString(phones.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.DISPLAY_NAME));
String contactNumber = phones.getString(phones.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER));
}
phones.close();

Show only contacts with phone number and open contact list intent:
Intent pickContactIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK, ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI); // Uri.parse("content://contacts")
// Show only user contacts with phone numbers
pickContactIntent.setType(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_TYPE); // Show only user contacts with phone numbers
startActivityForResult(pickContactIntent, PICK_CONTACT_REQUEST);
Get the phone number from response/contact:
#Override
public void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
if (requestCode == PICK_CONTACT_REQUEST) {
if (resultCode == RESULT_OK) {
Uri contactUri = data.getData();
String[] projection = {ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER};
Cursor cursor = getActivity().getContentResolver().query(contactUri, projection, null, null, null);
if (cursor == null) {
// show error msg
return;
}
cursor.moveToFirst();
int column = cursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER);
if (column >= 0) {
String phoneNo = cursor.getString(column);
sendSmsMessage(phoneNo);
} else {
// show error msg
}
cursor.close();
}
}
}
Make sure, you also handle runtime permissions in API 23+
android.permission.READ_CONTACTS

Views contact details and get phone number selected by user

I want to display the native android contacts list and then once the user picks a contact, i would like to move to the next native screen where it shows the details of the contact (like phone numbers, email, etc).
Now once the user selects either an email address or a phone number, I would then like to get that data back to my original activity and do further processing.
I know that I could use
startActivityForResult(new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK, Contacts.CONTENT_URI), REQUEST_CODE_PICK_CONTACT);
and then myself parse the contact using getContentResolver().query() and then store each of the required fields. Then finally display on a separate activity as contact details and then once the user chooses any one of the phone numbers or emails, then i use that to do further processing.
I tried to do the following inside onActivityResult():
Uri contactData = data.getData();
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK, contactData);
startActivityForResult(intent, REQUEST_CODE_PICK_CONTACT_DETAIL);
This displays the details of the contact but when the user selects a particular number, android calls it instead of passing it back to me in the previous activity.
But I would like to use the native screens if possible and it would require a lot less parsing and no extra activities/fragments.
Could someone suggest how to go about doing this?
Thanks

You can get contact details from phone contact doing this way
Uri uri = data.getData();
String[] projection = new String[] {ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.DISPLAY_NAME,
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER};
Cursor people = getActivity().getContentResolver().query(uri, projection, null, null, null);
int indexName = people.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.DISPLAY_NAME);
int indexNumber = people.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER);
int type = people.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_TYPE);
people.moveToFirst();
do {
String name = people.getString(indexName);
String number = people.getString(indexNumber);
System.out.println(name+number);
} while (people.moveToNext());

This might help:
Uri contactData = data.getData();
ContentResolver cr = getContentResolver();
Cursor c = cr.query(contactData, null, null, null, null);
if (c.moveToFirst()) {
String id = c
.getString(c
.getColumnIndexOrThrow(ContactsContract.Contacts._ID));
String hasPhone = c
.getString(c
.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts.HAS_PHONE_NUMBER));
if (hasPhone.equalsIgnoreCase("1")) {
Cursor phones = getContentResolver()
.query(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI,
null,
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTACT_ID
+ " = " + id, null, null);
phones.moveToFirst();
String cNumber = phones
.getString(phones
.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER));
Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), cNumber,
Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
String nameContact = c
.getString(c
.getColumnIndexOrThrow(ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME));
// contact number = cNumber
//contact name = nameContact
}
}

How to select multiple contacts from the phone using checkboxes

I am trying to select contacts available from the phone programmatically and I am using the below code
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT);
intent.setType(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE);
startActivityForResult(intent, 1);
However the question is How can I select multiple contacts at a time by using a checkbox in the contacts page?

You will have to read the Contacts programmatically and display them in a ListView in your Activity. Use CheckBoxs in the ListView items and allow multiple items to be selected. Find a simple example/tutorial for a ListView and start from there.
There are several reasons why it is better to create a custom ListView rather than using Intent(Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT);:
There may not be a way to select multiples as you have requested.
Even if you find a way to select multiples, it will be different on
every OS version and device, and might not work on all of them.
If there are multiple applications installed on any device that can
handle ACTION_GET_CONTENT, then a chooser will be presented to the
user and he will have to select one of those. The user's selection
may not support selecting multiple contacts.
Here is an example that reads your system contacts:
Cursor cursor = getContentResolver().query(ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI,null, null, null, null);
while (cursor.moveToNext()) {
String contactId = cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts._ID));
String hasPhone = cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts.HAS_PHONE_NUMBER));
String name = cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME));
if("1".equals(hasPhone) || Boolean.parseBoolean(hasPhone)) {
// You know it has a number so now query it like this
Cursor phones = myActivity.getContentResolver().query( ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI, null, ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTACT_ID +" = "+ contactId, null, null);
while (phones.moveToNext()) {
String phoneNumber = phones.getString(phones.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER));
int itype = phones.getInt(phones.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.TYPE));
final boolean isMobile =
itype == ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.TYPE_MOBILE ||
itype == ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.TYPE_WORK_MOBILE;
// Do something here with 'phoneNumber' such as saving into
// the List or Array that will be used in your 'ListView'.
}
phones.close();
}
}

public static final int REQUEST_CODE_PICK_CONTACT = 1;
public static final int MAX_PICK_CONTACT= 10;
private void launchMultiplePhonePicker() {
Intent phonebookIntent = new Intent("intent.action.INTERACTION_TOPMENU");
phonebookIntent.putExtra("additional", "phone-multi");
phonebookIntent.putExtra("maxRecipientCount", MAX_PICK_CONTACT);
phonebookIntent.putExtra("FromMMS", true);
startActivityForResult(phonebookIntent, REQUEST_CODE_PICK_CONTACT);
}
#Override
public void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
if(resultCode==RESULT_OK)
{
if(requestCode == REQUEST_CODE_PICK_CONTACT )
{
Bundle bundle = data.getExtras();
String result= bundle.getString("result");
ArrayList<String> contacts = bundle.getStringArrayList("result");
Log.i(TAG, "launchMultiplePhonePicker bundle.toString()= " + contactsPick.toString() );
}
}
super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);
}

Retrieve mobile number from contact

I want to retrieve the mobile number from the contacts (I want to send an sms). Here my code:
//Selecting the contact
Button buttonPickContact = (Button)findViewById(R.id.pickcontact);
buttonPickContact.setOnClickListener(new Button.OnClickListener(){
public void onClick(View v) {
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK, ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI);
startActivityForResult(intent, RQS_PICK_CONTACT);
}});
#Override
protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);
Cursor cursor = null;
mName.setText(context.getString(R.string.not_available));
mNumber.setText(context.getString(R.string.not_available));
if(requestCode == RQS_PICK_CONTACT && resultCode == RESULT_OK && data != null){
Log.d(TAG, "requestCode, resultCode, data ok");
Uri uri = data.getData();
try{
String[] projection = new String[] {ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.DISPLAY_NAME, ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.HAS_PHONE_NUMBER};
// cursor = getContentResolver().query(uri, projection, null, null, null);
cursor = getContentResolver().query(uri, null, null, null, null);
cursor.moveToFirst();
Log.d(TAG, "Trying to retrieve the name and the number");
String name = cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.DISPLAY_NAME));
String hasNumber = cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.HAS_PHONE_NUMBER));
Log.d(TAG, "hasNumber "+hasNumber);
mName.setText(name);
if(hasNumber.trim().equals("1")){
Log.d(TAG, "contact has telephone number");
//set name and number
String phoneNumber = cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER));
mNumber.setText(phoneNumber);
}
}catch(Exception ex){
CharSequence text = context.getString(R.string.cannot_choose_contact);
Toast toast = Toast.makeText(context, text, duration);
toast.show();
}
if(cursor!= null && !cursor.isClosed()){
cursor.close();
}
}else{
CharSequence text = context.getString(R.string.cannot_choose_contact);
Toast toast = Toast.makeText(context, text, duration);
toast.show();
}
}
I am getting: Failed to read row 0, column -1 from CursorWindow...
How do I get the phone number - am I trying to retrieve it from the right column?
Thanks in advance for your answers,

The detailed data for a contact is contained in a separate table from the main contact itself (see the Contacts API guide for more detail). Since you're sending an SMS, it might be more useful to only get the contacts who have a phone number associated, so you might as well go straight for the table which contains phone numbers. For the URI, I use:
CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI
Then you don't have to worry about HAS_PHONE_NUMBER. At a glance, the rest of your code looks right or very close. If you wanted to continue down your original path, you'd have to do a separate query on this table anyway, but provide it the ID of the contact that you initially found.

Use a CursorLoader to do queries. Always. If you continue to do queries on the UI thread, eventually you'll run into a situation where you hang the system and get an ANR.
You're requesting the user to pick contacts from the Contacts table, so you'll get back a URI that points to a contact in Contacts.
A trick for handling this is to strip the contact's LOOKUP_KEY from the returned URI using
Uri.getLastPathSegment(). Then search ContactsContract.Data for the LOOKUP_KEY and the
MIMETYPE value CommonDataKinds.Email.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE. Based on your code, this would be:
mLookupKey = uri.getLastPathSegment();
String SELECTION = Data.LOOKUP_KEY + " = ? " +
" AND " +
Data.MIMETYPE + " = ?";
String[] selectionArgs = {
mLookupKey,
Email.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE
};
...

get contact info from android contact picker

I'm trying to call the contact picker, get the persons name, phone and e-mail into strings and send them to another activity using an intent. So far this works:
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK, ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI);
startActivityForResult(intent, 1);
// ...
#Override
public void onActivityResult(int reqCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
super.onActivityResult(reqCode, resultCode, data);
if (resultCode == Activity.RESULT_OK) {
Uri contactData = data.getData();
Cursor c = managedQuery(contactData, null, null, null, null);
if (c.moveToFirst()) {
String name = c.getString(c.getColumnIndexOrThrow(ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME));
Intent intent = new Intent(CurrentActivity.this, NewActivity.class);
intent.putExtra("name", name);
startActivityForResult(intent, 0);
}
}
}
But if i add in:
String number = c.getString(c.getColumnIndexOrThrow(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER));
it force closes
Maybe theres another way to get their number?

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,
null,
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTACT_ID +" = ?",
new String[]{id}, null);
while (pCur.moveToNext()) {
// Do something with phones
}
pCur.close();
}
Perform a second query against the Android contacts SQLite database. The phone numbers are queried against the URI stored in ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI. The contact ID is stored in the phone table as ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTACT_ID and the WHERE clause is used to limit the data returned.
Email Addresses
Querying email addresses is similar to phone numbers. A query must be performed to get email addresses from the database. Query the URI stored in ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.CONTENT_URI to query the email address table.
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));
}
emailCur.close();
As with the phone query the field names for the email table are also stored under ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds. The email query is performed on the URI in ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.CONTENT_URI and the WHERE clause has to match the ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.CONTACT_ID field. Since multiple email addresses can be stored loop through the records returned in the Cursor.
More tutorials here
This method requires Android API version 5 or higher.

Building on the accepted answer, if you want to jump straight to the desired email address and not require the contacts permission use something like this:
private static final int REQUEST_CODE_EMAIL = 1;
void startSelectingEmail() {
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK, ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.CONTENT_URI);
startActivityForResult(intent, REQUEST_CODE_EMAIL);
}
#Override
public void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);
if (resultCode == Activity.RESULT_OK && requestCode == REQUEST_CODE_EMAIL) {
Uri emailUri = data.getData();
Cursor emailCursor = getContext().getContentResolver().query(emailUri, null, null, null, null);
if (emailCursor != null) {
if (emailCursor.moveToFirst()) {
String email = emailCursor.getString(
emailCursor.getColumnIndexOrThrow(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.DATA));
String emailType = emailCursor.getString(
emailCursor.getColumnIndexOrThrow(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.TYPE));
Log.d(TAG, "Email: " + emailType + " " + email);
}
emailCursor.close();
}
}
}
This doesn't require the contacts permission to read the email address like the double query methods above. It also makes it so that you do not need to write UI for the user to select the appropriate email address for contacts with multiple emails, the user selects a specific email in the Contacts app so you only get one result.
The cursor comes back with quite a few columns in addition to just email address like display name, though that has only been verified on a Nexus 5 running Android M.