I've pulled out most of my hair now and really needs some help
before I go completely bold
I'm trying to launch an action picker to select a Contact that has a phone number.
When that contact is selected, I want to extract the name and phone number.
But this only happens for some contacts, not all.
The code is rougly as follows:
Select contact:
Intent contactPicker = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK, contactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI);
startActivityForResult(contactPicker, REQ_PICK_CONTACT);
Extract id (notice getData().getLastPathSegment():
onContactForImportPicked(intent.getData().getLastPathSegment());
and then I try to fetch this contact:
String[] fields = new String[] {
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER,
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.DISPLAY_NAME_PRIMARY
};
Cursor cursor = content.query(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI,
fields,
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTACT_ID + "=?", new String[] { id }, // SEE BELOW
null);
It this point, many contacts are fetched correctly, but a lot is
also non-existing. cursor.getCount() == 0. In the 'SEE BELOW'
section above, I've tried various other fields, linke
Contact._ID, Phone._ID etc etc.
Any idea why some contacts are not fetched with this method?
When I use your code, I don't even get the contact I selected correctly. The intent data contains the URI to the data you want, so you can use that directly.
Try --
Cursor cursor = content.query(data.getData(),
fields,
null,
null,
null);
Related
I am maintaining a list of contacts for my application. First I pick contact using ACTION_PICK with an intent. I am saving these contacts in my local database along with CONTACT_ID. Now user may choose to edit any contact to add some extra information that my app needs. I fire that edit intent with ACTION_EDIT. I have two questions here
I am saving CONTACT_ID to my database in order to use in edit intent. First question is does this id changes after edition ? because It so happens that I am unable to open contact editor for same contact again.
Second question is how can I read back all the details of this edited contact ? I am getting this back in my onActivityResult(). I have tried to use same code which i am using in case of picking but data structure returned in case of edit is different it seems.
you can get any data from contacts using a cursor like
String[] projection = new String[] {
ContactsContract.PhoneLookup.DISPLAY_NAME,
ContactsContract.PhoneLookup._ID};
// query time
Cursor cursor = _context.getContentResolver()
.query("ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI",
projection, null, null, null);
if(cursor != null) {
while ( cursor.moveToNext()) {
String name = cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex(
ContactsContract.PhoneLookup.DISPLAY_NAME));
// do other stuff
}
}
cursor.close();
take a look at https://developer.android.com/training/contacts-provider/retrieve-details.html
I have implemented Skype video/audio calling functionality using Intent in my application it is working fine. But now I want to get all contacts list from Skype account is it possible?.
Is there any alternate way to show list of contacts of Skype account please give any idea?
All contacts (provided they are synced) can be queried with the ContactsContract provider. The RawContacts.ACCOUNT_TYPE column of the RawContacts table indicates the account type for each entry ("raw" means that it contains all entries, e.g. multiple rows for a single person with multiple aggregated contacts).
To read the Skype contacts, you can do something like this:
Cursor c = getContentResolver().query(
RawContacts.CONTENT_URI,
new String[] { RawContacts.CONTACT_ID, RawContacts.DISPLAY_NAME_PRIMARY },
RawContacts.ACCOUNT_TYPE + "= ?",
new String[] { "com.skype.contacts.sync" },
null);
int contactNameColumn = c.getColumnIndex(RawContacts.DISPLAY_NAME_PRIMARY);
ArrayList<String> mySkypeContacts = new ArrayList<String>();
while (c.moveToNext())
{
/// You can also read RawContacts.CONTACT_ID to query the
// ContactsContract.Contacts table or any of the other related ones.
mySkypeContacts.add(c.getString(contactNameColumn));
}
Be sure to also request the android.permission.READ_CONTACTS permission in the AndroidManifest.xml file.
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.
I use the contact picker in this way:
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK, Contacts.CONTENT_URI);
this.startActivityForResult(intent, PICK_CONTACT_REQUEST);
My question is if somehow the contact list can be filtered? For example I want to see only those contacts in the contact list which have at least a phone number or an email address.
I would suggest to use your custom view for the contacts- it is not rather difficult and you can customize it however you want. I personally implemented that way the functionality you need.
See here:
String PHONE_CONTACTS_ORDER_CLAUSE = ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME
+ " ASC";
List<PhoneContact> contacts = new ArrayList<PhoneContact>(); // I have defined the bean PhoneContact
String[] projection = { ContactsContract.Contacts._ID,
ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME }; //Choose the columns you need
Cursor cursor = this.getContentResolver().query(
ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI, projection, null/* the place for your where clause*/, null/* the place for your where args*/,
PHONE_CONTACTS_ORDER_CLAUSE);
startManagingCursor(cursor);
int contactIdIdx = cursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts._ID);
int displayNameIdx = cursor
.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME);
while (cursor.moveToNext()) {
PhoneContact contact = new PhoneContact(); // This is a class i defined, use the data the way you like.
contact.setContactId(cursor.getString(contactIdIdx));
contact.setDisplayName(cursor.getString(displayNameIdx));
contacts.add(contact);
}
EDIT
Sorry got distracted when writing the comment: the Contact id is actually the glue between the different content providers of the Contact related data. These are a few more providers you can use to see whether there are any associated phones or emails with the contact:
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.CONTENT_URI
I'm working on Android contact. I want to query phone numbers (not contact name) from a specific group name. What query should i perform in order to do this?
Cursor c = context.getContentResolver().query(ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI
, null, ContactsContract.Data.MIMETYPE+"=?"
, new String[]{ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.GroupMembership.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE}
, null);
Then loop through cursor and get data u want. This will return data blocks showing the contactID and the groupID and other info. With this then query ContactsContract.Groups and get data about the group to compare.
If you are looking for specific data about a group first query for group row ID than you can add that to the following cursor like so...
Cursor c = context.getContentResolver().query(ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI
, null, ContactsContract.Data.MIMETYPE+"=? AND "+ ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.GroupMembership.GROUP_ROW_ID+"=?"
, new String[]{ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.GroupMembership.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE, rowID }
, null);
wrote code here so sorry for silly mistakes
You can find group id like so...
Cursor c = context.getContentResolver().query(ContactsContract.Groups.CONTENT_URI, new String[]{ContactsContract.Groups._ID}, ContactsContract.Groups.TITLE+"=?","myGroup", null);