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Compare phone number from database in different condition

I'm developing sms APP and want to receive sms from the specific numbers. But number can be changed sometime with country code as +923201234567 or sometime without country code 03201234567 how I can compare number from database? because don't know in which format number is saved in database(with country code or without country code)
public boolean isMember(String phone, long id){
String query = "SELECT * from members where phone = ? AND active = 1 AND gid = ?";
Cursor c = dbActions.rawQuery(query, new String[]{String.valueOf(phone), String.valueOf(id)});
return c.moveToFirst();
}
Suppose if the number is saved in database without country code 03201234567 then my requirement is to get true if I compare it with country code. +923201234567. Country code could be changed.
PhoneNumberUtils.compare(); is not useful because it not compare with database.

If you can't acquire the correct information always; then you need to look into heuristics.
Meaning: you could write your own comparisons; and when you encounter two numbers like:
03201234567
+923201234567
you can figure: their "tail" is equal; the only difference is that the first one starts with 0 (so no country code) and the second one with +92. So it might be reasonable to declare those two numbers to be equal.
So a "solution" would do things like "normalize" your input (remove all non-digit content; except for leading + signs); and to then make such "tail-bound" comparisons.
If that is "too" fuzzy; I guess then you should step back and describe the requirement that you actually try to resolve here. Why are you comparing numbers; and what do you intend to do with the output of that comparison?!

Normalize all of the phone numbers into the same format before you put them into the database. That way you can just do a normal db search.
The other thing I've done for phone numbers is to convert all letters into the appropriate number, then remove all non digits, then just compare the last 7 digits.

How to differentiate between cellular operators in an Android application?

I have an Android application which uses an .so file, The .so changes his behavior according the network the phone connected to, i.e. if you are connected to AT&T you need to do XYZ. if you work on Verizon you do ABC otherwise you do XY.
Is there any good way to differentiate between mobile networks?
I thought to use PLMN somehow, Is there any robust way of doing
that? (I want it to work while roaming too etc.).
I had seen this, but I need to do it only in the C code with no wrappers or Java engagement, meaning the following can't be used:
TelephonyManager telephonyManager =((TelephonyManager) Context.getSystemService(Context.TELEPHONY_SERVICE));
String operatorName = telephonyManager.getNetworkOperatorName();

You can get the currently used PLMN with the AT+COPS? command. From 27.007:
+COPS? +COPS: <mode>[,<format>,<oper>[,<AcT>]]
...
Read command returns the current mode, the currently selected operator and the
current Access Technology. If no operator is selected, <format>, <oper> and <AcT>
are omitted.
....
<oper>: string type; <format> indicates if the format is alphanumeric or numeric;
long alphanumeric format can be upto 16 characters long and short format up to 8
characters (refer GSM MoU SE.13 [9]); numeric format is the GSM Location Area
Identification number (refer 3GPP TS 24.008 [8] subclause 10.5.1.3) which
consists of a three BCD digit country code coded as in ITU-T E.212 Annex A
[10], plus a two BCD digit network code, which is administration specific;
returned <oper> shall not be in BCD format, but in IRA characters converted from
BCD; hence the number has structure: (country code digit 3)(country code digit 2)
(country code digit 1) (network code digit 3)(network code digit 2)(network code
digit 1)

Using the following two at commands (see also)
AT+COPN 7.21 - Read operator names
AT+COPS 7.3 - PLMN selection

How to check given phone number is international or non-international number in android?

My requirement is to find out the message recipient number is an International number or National number.
Is there any android API or any third party library available to implement the same.
I want to use libphonenumber google API[android/externals/libphonenumber] but don't know how to check International and Non-international number.

I don't think telephonyManager.getSimCountryIso() would help you determine 'to which country the call is being made' as it will return your country's ISO.
Moreover, length of ISD codes vary across countries. For some countries it is 1, for some it's 2, for some it's 3 and for others it's 4. So you will need to extract/make 4 different keys of these lengths from the outgoing number as I have shown below:
Say the out going number is +91-XXX-XXX-XXXX. then you'll create 4 keys as:
9 (1 digit key)
91 (2 digit key)
91X (3 digit key)
91XX (4 digit key)
Now check if any of these 4 keys is present in this list: ISO List .
[EDIT: Alternative Solution]
Again, if you only need to determine if the call being made is international or not then you can simply check for below condition:
if(outgoing-number `startswith` "00" || outgoing-number does not `startswith` your "country's- ISD-code") {
//it's an international call;
} else {
//it's a domestic call;
}

Rather use the google library which is used internally in Android as well.
http://code.google.com/p/libphonenumber/

Get country code from numbers that are different length

We know that there are numbers with different length. In Europe we mostly have 9 digits numbers plus country code.
In North America we often find 10 digits numbers.
I am trying to get my head around an idea how to get a country code from a number that may be of different length.
Any ideas? Maybe you know some working libs that can do it?

The key facts:
The country code is always at the start of the number, so it is easy to find no matter the length of the number.
There is no overlap, as #Luis points out.
A (looks pretty) complete list of country codes is give here. If you sort them by length (shortest first) and run through the list comparing the first n digits with the list entries you will get the answer.
However, if you look at the list you wall see that there are various groups of codes. A more intelligent approach would note that:
All numbers beginning with 1 are US, Canada or other US related places in which case the next three digits tell you which.
7 is Khazakstan
Apart from 20, all country codes beginning with 2 are three digits.
and so on ...

Country codes are parsed left-to-right with deterministic endpoints similar to the idea of Huffman coding. ie, if you see a 1 first, stop, it's the US/Canada/related territories. If you see most other numbers besides 7 (Russia/Kazakhstan), keep going. Some of those numbers may terminate on the second value.
The list of country codes is here: http://www.howtocallabroad.com/codes.html
It should be trivial for you to take this and write your own string parser of a phone number in order to determine which country code is present.
(don't forget that if these are numbers from within a particular country, you also have to take that country's exit code into account, which is also on the page I linked)
Edit: Oh, I guess luis covered it. But Jakob is incorrect in his comment about Barbados. Barbados is the same country code as the US; the 246 is its local "area code" within the US/Canada's country code.

I assume that you are talking about phone number country codes. Country codes are defined by the ITU ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_country_calling_codes ). The country codes can be 1, 2 or 3 digits. Your only alternative is to have a list of all country codes and parse it from there. Note that there is no overlap; for instance, +44 belongs to the UK, and no country starts with just 4.
UPDATE: The North American Area has 4 digit prefixes, not 1, composed of +1 and a NPA of 3 digit (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Numbering_Plan). The same rule applies though, in that +1-NPA cannot be repeated. Barbados seems to be +1246, but no other country or region can start with +1246. You can get the list of all NPA from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_North_American_Numbering_Plan_area_codes

check mobile number valid or not through country code

I have contact like "+919672525253".Now i extract the country code like "91" from that number.Now if number is like "9672525253" and if i extract the country code then it will give me "967".So after extracting the country code how can i check that remaining number is valid mobile number for that country code or not?
EDIT
If any body know the mobile number length country wise then also i can solve this problem.like in india 10 digits.

You pretty much can't. For example in the US mobile numbers and landline numbers are indistinguishable, they have normal area codes just like landline numbers. Even if it were possible every country does it differently and it is also constantly changing as numbers run out new prefixes are added and things change and their is no pattern you could match against or database you could do a lookup against.

Take a look at libPhoneNumber (bundled in ICS) which can help validating a phone number (see PhoneNumberUtils).
There's a MobileType you can get after validation but as stated in the source and by Ben, in some region this will not work.
EDIT:
Some validation code (here we need to check the phone is a valid one assuming it's a french one):
boolean isValid = false;
PhoneNumber number = null;
try {
number = this.phoneUtil.parse(phone, "FR"); // phone is number in internationnal format "+xxxxxx"
isValid = this.phoneUtil.isValidNumber(number);
} catch (final NumberParseException e) {
// ...
}
isValid // is the phone number valid according to the library?
this.phoneUtil.getRegionCodeForNumber(number); // this gets the country code of the phone as found by the library (for example "US", "CH", "GB", ...)
This works for us but you'll need to try it to see if it suit your need.