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Android. Retrieve first name and last name from contact book by phone number

I am trying to get first name and last name in contact book by phone number.
Here is my code:
Uri contactUri = Uri.withAppendedPath(ContactsContract.PhoneLookup.CONTENT_FILTER_URI, Uri.encode(phoneNumber));
Cursor cursor = cResolver.query(uri, null, null, null, null);
if(cursor != null && cursor.moveToFirst()) {
int idColumnIndex = cursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts._ID);
int firstNameIndex = cursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredName.GIVEN_NAME);
int lastNameIndex = cursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredName.FAMILY_NAME);
while (!cursor.isAfterLast()) {
long id = cursor.getLong(idColumnIndex);
contact = new MyContact();
contact.setId(id);
contact.setFirstName(cursor.getString(firstNameIndex));
contact.setLastName(cursor.getString(lastNameIndex));
}
cursor.close();
}
But firstNameIndex and lastNameIndex is always -1. What I am doing wrong ? Please help me.

PhoneLookup is a nice and quick way to get contact data by a phone number, but it returns a cursor limited to the columns mentioned in the docs.
You can see there's DISPLAY_NAME you can access, but not GIVEN_NAME, FAMILY_NAME.
GIVEN_NAME & FAMILY_NAME are fields stored in the Data table, which means you need to query that table separately to get to those fields.
So, you can just add another query using the contact ID you got from PhoneLookup (note that for each looked up phone there might be multiple contacts returned).
Here's a sample method to get first/last names from contact ID:
private void addNames(MyContact contact, long contactId) {
String[] projection = new String[] {StructuredName.GIVEN_NAME, StructuredName.FAMILY_NAME};
// filter to just StructuredName rows from the data table for the given contact
String selection = Data.CONTACT_ID + "=" + contactID + " AND " + Data.MIMETYPE + "=" + StructuredName.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE;
Cursor cursor = getContentResolver().query(Data.CONTENT_URI, projection, selection, null, null);
if (cursor.next()) {
contact.setFirstName(cursor.getString(0));
contact.setLastName(cursor.getString(1));
}
cursor.close();
}

How to fetch all contacts from local phonebook and google contacts together?

I am trying to fetch contacts from the phonebook in my Android application. But it fetches the contacts that are present only in the local phone storage. I need to fetch all the contacts including the ones synced to the device using various accounts like Google. That is currently not happening. I am using a RecyclerView to display the contacts fetched.
I have tried using https://github.com/mirrajabi/rx-contacts2 library for fetching asynchronously. But that doesn't include Google contacts as well. Then I tried using Android's built-in CotentResolver
Contact contact;
ContentResolver contentResolver = getContentResolver();
Cursor cursor = contentResolver.query(ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI, null, null, null, ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.DISPLAY_NAME + " ASC");
if (cursor != null) {
if (cursor.getCount() > 0) {
while (cursor.moveToNext()) {
int hasPhoneNumber = Integer.parseInt(cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts.HAS_PHONE_NUMBER)));
if (hasPhoneNumber > 0) {
String id = cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts._ID));
String name = cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME));
contact = new Contact(Long.parseLong(id));
contact.setDisplayName(name);
Cursor phoneCursor = contentResolver.query(
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI,
null,
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTACT_ID + " = ?",
new String[]{id},
null);
if (phoneCursor != null) {
if (phoneCursor.moveToNext()) {
String phoneNumber = phoneCursor.getString(phoneCursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER));
Set<String> phoneNumbers = new HashSet<>();
phoneNumbers.add(phoneNumber);
contact.setPhoneNumbers(phoneNumbers);
}
phoneCursor.close();
}
Cursor emailCursor = contentResolver.query(
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.CONTENT_URI,
null,
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.CONTACT_ID + " = ?",
new String[]{id}, null);
if (emailCursor != null) {
while (emailCursor.moveToNext()) {
String emailId = emailCursor.getString(emailCursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.DATA));
}
emailCursor.close();
}
listContacts.add(contact);
}
}
}
cursor.close();
}
Currently, I am trying to fetch the contacts synchronously and it hangs up the main thread. It would be really helpful if you could suggest some ways to do that asynchronously. When doing so I also require a trigger to know when the task is completed.

Your code should work on all contacts synced to the device, including Google contacts (assuming the Google account is installed, and the contacts sync is enabled).
However, your code has some bugs, and can be greatly improved, currently for a device with 500 contacts, you are doing ~1000 queries.
All the data you need is on a single table called Data so you can get everything in a single quick query, see here:
Map<Long, Contact> contacts = new HashMap<>();
String[] projection = {Data.CONTACT_ID, Data.DISPLAY_NAME, Data.MIMETYPE, Data.DATA1};
String selection = Data.MIMETYPE + " IN ('" + Phone.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE + "', '" + Email.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE + "')";
Cursor cur = cr.query(Data.CONTENT_URI, projection, selection, null, null);
while (cur.moveToNext()) {
long id = cur.getLong(0);
String name = cur.getString(1);
String mime = cur.getString(2); // email / phone
String data = cur.getString(3); // the actual info, e.g. +1-212-555-1234
// get the Contact class from the HashMap, or create a new one and add it to the Hash
Contact contact;
if (contacts.containsKey(id)) {
contact = contacts.get(id);
} else {
contact = new Contact(id);
contact.setDisplayName(name);
// start with empty Sets for phones and emails
contact.setPhoneNumbers(new HashSet<>());
contact.setEmails(new HashSet<>());
contacts.put(id, contact);
}
switch (mime) {
case Phone.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE:
contact.getPhoneNumbers().add(data);
break;
case Email.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE:
contact.getEmails().add(data);
break;
}
}
cur.close();
Notes:
I've changed your listContacts to a HashMap called contacts so we can quickly find an existing contact
I've added setEmails, getPhoneNumbers and getEmails to your Contact class

Get only numbers shown in the android contactbook

I want to filter what numbers I am getting from Android based on which contacts the user chose to display in his contact book. (For example only contacts saved on the device when all other contacts are excluded)
I read here that you can do this by using
Uri queryUri = ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI;
I use following code to read the contacts and I allways get every contact, phone, SIM, etc..
//https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16651609/how-to-display-phone-contacts-only-exclude-sim-contacts
// http://www.higherpass.com/Android/Tutorials/Working-With-Android-Contacts/1/
ContentResolver cr = currentActivity.getContentResolver();
Uri queryUri = ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI;
Cursor cur = cr.query(queryUri,
null, null, null, null);
if (cur.getCount() > 0) {
while (cur.moveToNext()) { //Are there still contacts?
//See if the contact has at least one number
if (Integer.parseInt(cur.getString(cur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts.HAS_PHONE_NUMBER))) > 0) {
String id = cur.getString( cur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts._ID) );
String name = cur.getString( cur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME) );
ArrayList<String> numbers = new ArrayList<String>();
//Read numbers:
Cursor pCur = cr.query(
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI,
null,
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTACT_ID +" = ?",
new String[]{id}, null);
while (pCur.moveToNext()) {
numbers.add( pCur.getString(
pCur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER)) );
Log.e("Contactbook", "The latest added number is: " + numbers.get(numbers.size()-1) );
}
pCur.close();
}
}
}
What am I missing? This code still gives me both SIM and phone contacts to the log.
Edit: To clarifify, in the contactbook you got the "Display options". In there ist the "select contacts to display"-option, and I want to read the contacts that are shown based on the users choice there. So if a user choses to show only SIM-contacts, read only SIM-contacts, if he choses to only show Phone-Contacts, show onyl phone contacts etc...

Try with following "selection".
String selection = ContactsContract.Contacts.IN_VISIBLE_GROUP + " = ?";
From Android docs:
public static final String IN_VISIBLE_GROUP: An indicator of whether this contact is supposed to be visible in the UI. "1" if the contact has at least one raw contact that belongs to a visible group; "0" otherwise.
This should be your "selection" argument in query API.
Update: I tried below code on Android-2.3(I know it is old device, but right now Don't have newer device with me).
final ContentResolver cr = getContentResolver();
String[] projection = new String[] { ContactsContract.Contacts._ID, ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME };
String selection = ContactsContract.Contacts.IN_VISIBLE_GROUP + " = ?" ;
String[] Args = { "1" };
final Cursor contacts = cr.query(
ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI, projection,
selection,Args ,
null);
This could be a long operation (depending on no. of contacts), hence you should use CursorLoader class (A loader that queries the ContentResolver and returns a Cursor) for this.
cursorLoader.loadInBackground();
This will be called on a worker thread to perform the actual load and to return the result of the load operation.

You can easily create two Arrays for each kind of contacts
ArrayList<String> simContacts = new ArrayList<>();
//get all sim contacts
Uri simUri = Uri.parse("content://icc/adn");
Cursor cursorSim = getContext().getContentResolver().query(simUri, null, null, null, null);
while (cursorSim.moveToNext()) {
simContacts.add(cursorSim.getString(cursorSim.getColumnIndex("name")));
}
}
ArrayList<String> allContacts = new ArrayList<>();
//get all contacts
Cursor cur = cr.query(ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI,
null, null, null, null);
if (cursor != null && cursor.getCount() > 0) {
while (!cursor.isAfterLast()) {
String phoneNumber = cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndexOrThrow(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER));
String displayNameColumn = Utils.hasHoneycomb() ? ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME_PRIMARY : ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME;
String displayName = cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndexOrThrow(displayNameColumn));
//check if simContacts Array contains this particular name
if (!simContacts.contains(displayNameColumn){
allContacts.add(displayNameColumn);
}
}
}
This is just a working example,of course you can modify to your needs.You can parse more contact fields and make more complication queries.

Wrong reference to Contacts table from sms inbox

I am trying to find the contact details corresponding to an sms from the phone's sms inbox. From my understanding the person column is a foreign key to the _id column of ContactsContract.Contacts.
My problem is that I am getting wrong values for the person value from the sms query. Some person ids don't exist in the contact table and some are pointing to totally different contact.
Below is the code that I use for fetching the list of person values, Can anyone tell me if I missed something or faced a similar problem.
Tested with Nexus S running Android 4.1.2
Uri parsedUri = Uri.parse("content://sms/inbox");
String[] projection = new String[] { "_id", "address", "person" };
Cursor cursor = contentResolver.query(parsedUri, projection, null, null, null);
Log.d(TAG, "Total Count " + cursor.getCount());
if (cursor.getCount() > 0) {
// String address;
int person;
int personIndex = cursor.getColumnIndex("person");
if (cursor.moveToFirst())
do {
person = cursor.getInt(personIndex);
if (person > 0) {
// Add this id to a list
}
} while (cursor.moveToNext());
}
cursor.close();
Update: I was looking at some documentation from the Android Developer Portal (http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/providers/contacts-provider.html), Is it possible that the person id that is retrieved from the sms inbox is referring to the ContactsContract.RawContacts instead of ContactsContract.Contacts as I have done.

Indeed the person column in the sms inbox refers to a RawContacts entry's id. By querying the RawContacts table you can find the contact_id for the Contacts table for the specific user.
You can try this code to get the contact id from the RawContacts table..
long contactId = 0;
Uri uri = ContactsContract.RawContacts.CONTENT_URI;
String[] projection = new String[] { ContactsContract.RawContacts._ID, ContactsContract.RawContacts.CONTACT_ID };
Cursor cursor = contentResolver.query(uri, projection,
ContactsContract.RawContacts._ID + " = ?",
new String[] { rawContactId }, null);
if (cursor.moveToFirst()) {
int contactIdIndex = cursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.RawContacts.CONTACT_ID);
contactId = cursor.getLong(contactIdIndex);
}
cursor.close();
This should solve your problem for fetching the correct contact details by reading an sms row in Android. However as the sms data provider is not documented and phone manufacturers may use them differently, there is chance that this approach may not work on phones other than pure android.

You first check that person number is exits in contact list or not.if yes then match both id.
Cursor cursor=managedQuery(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));
if (Boolean.parseBoolean(hasPhone)) {
// You know have the number so now query it like this
Cursor phones = 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));
}
phones.close();
}
}

Android Contacs

I'm able to fetch all the contacts from Contact list in android(phone numbers and emails)
but fetching all of them takes long time.
To speed up this I have stored them once in my application. But now i can't get the updated contacts. How does they need to be synced with my application?
Problem arises when I try to display them in a list because a user database of phone numbers and emails exceeds the 2000. I'm currently using base adapter implementation for this.
Can somebody help me out for large contact database?
Application like GroupMe n Viber show all user contacts very fast can somebody tell me brief explanation to achieve it.
String KEY_NAME = "Name";
String KEY_NO = "No";
String selection = ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.IN_VISIBLE_GROUP + " = 1";
String sortOrder = ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.DISPLAY_NAME + " COLLATE LOCALIZED ASC";
String data="";
String name="";
ContactEntry contactObj;
String id;
String index="";
final String[] projection = new String[]{ContactsContract.Contacts._ID , ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME , ContactsContract.Contacts.HAS_PHONE_NUMBER};
final String[] email_projection = new String[] {ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.DATA , ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.TYPE};
final String[] phone_projection = new String[] {ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER, ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.TYPE};
ContentResolver cr = context.getContentResolver();
Cursor cur = cr.query(ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI , projection , selection , null , sortOrder);
if(cur.getCount()>0){
while(cur.moveToNext()){
id = cur.getString(cur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts._ID));
name = cur.getString(cur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME));
if (Integer.parseInt(cur.getString(cur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts.HAS_PHONE_NUMBER))) > 0) {
// get the phone number
Cursor pCur = cr.query(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI , phone_projection ,
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTACT_ID +" = ?",new String[]{id}, null);
while (pCur.moveToNext()){
data = pCur.getString(pCur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER));
if(!temp.contains(data) && !data.equals(null)){
//Adding PhoneNumbers in List
}
}
pCur.close();
}
Cursor emailCur = cr.query(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.CONTENT_URI, email_projection,
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.CONTACT_ID + " = ?", new String[]{id}, null);
while (emailCur.moveToNext()){
data = emailCur.getString(emailCur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.DATA));
if(!temp.contains(data) && !data.equals(null)){
//Adding Email in List
}
}
emailCur.close();
}
}
I have used the above code
How can i pass the Curser in CurosrAdaper for all Emails and Phonenumbers.
please help me i havn't found any solution.

Android provides a sync adapter to solve this problem. you may refer to this example for the implementation.
http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/SampleSyncAdapter/index.html

i had same issue , i have used ResourceCursorAdapter which fetches contacts as fast as Contact API from android....

I think you need to have a service (or) Asynch task something like that which periodically updates contacts from phone to your local app. Otherwise you can't synch.