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Android Content provider. How to get all data by one request from contact book

Is it possible to retrieve all data from contact book by one request (phone number, email, first name, last name, photo, thumbnail). Right now I am running a separate request for a first and last name, a separate request for a phone number and a separate request for an email, and so on. Is it possible to get all this data in one request? Please help me.

Yes, you can.
You're probably running your queries on Alias tables such as CommonDataKinds.Phone and CommonDataKinds.Email, but the actual data for all these tables is stored in a single table called Data.
So you should query directly on Data and use the MIMETYPE column to figure out the "type" of the current row you're iterating over.
Here's an example of getting name, email, phone.
You can add more mimetypes to the list to get more types of data.
I'm using a HashMap to keep a list of values for each contact-ID but you would probably want to create a custom Contact class and put that info in it.
Map<Long, List<String>> contacts = new HashMap<Long, List<String>>();
String[] projection = {Data.CONTACT_ID, Data.MIMETYPE, Data.DATA1, Data.DATA2, Data.DATA3};
// query only name/emails/phones
String selection = Data.MIMETYPE + " IN ('" + StructuredName.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE + "', '" + Phone.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE + "', '" + Email.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE + "')";
ContentResolver cr = getContentResolver();
Cursor cur = cr.query(Data.CONTENT_URI, projection, selection, null, null);
while (cur != null && cur.moveToNext()) {
long id = cur.getLong(0);
String mime = cur.getString(1); // type of data (name / phone / email)
String data = cur.getString(2); // the actual info, e.g. +1-212-555-1234
String kind = "unknown";
switch (mime) {
case Phone.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE:
kind = "phone";
break;
case StructuredName.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE:
kind = "name";
break;
case Email.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE:
kind = "email";
break;
}
Log.d(TAG, "got " + id + ", " + kind + " - " + data);
// add info to existing list if this contact-id was already found, or create a new list in case it's new
List<String> infos;
if (contacts.containsKey(id)) {
infos = contacts.get(id);
} else {
infos = new ArrayList<String>();
contacts.put(id, infos);
}
infos.add(kind + " = " + data);
}

How to get the first name of a contact in Android?

I'm trying to get the information of my contacts using ContactsContract and what I need to do, is to get only the first name of the contact. I used ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.DISPLAY_NAME but this get the name and the last name too, and I only want the name.
I tried using ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredName.GIVEN_NAME but instead of getting the name, this get a number.
I have not found an exact way to get only the first name of the contact. Any idea?

You haven't shared your code, but it sounds like you're querying over table Phone.CONTENT_URI and trying to get a field via StructuredName.GIVEN_NAME.
That's not possible, as Phone.CONTENT_URI will only return phone rows, not StructuredName rows.
Here's code snippet to get all given-names from the Contacts DB:
String[] projection = new String[]{StructuredName.CONTACT_ID, StructuredName.GIVEN_NAME};
String selection = Data.MIMETYPE + "='" + StructuredName.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE + "'";
Cursor c = getContentResolver().query(Data.CONTENT_URI, projection, selection, null, null);
DatabaseUtils.dumpCursor(c);
c.close();
UPDATE
Here's some sample code on how to query for multiple mimetypes in a single query.
In this example I created a mapping from to <given-name, phone> for each contact in the DB:
Map<Long, List<String>> contacts = new HashMap<Long, List<String>>();
String[] projection = {Data.CONTACT_ID, Data.DISPLAY_NAME, Data.MIMETYPE, StructuredName.GIVEN_NAME, Phone.NUMBER };
// select all rows of type "name" or "phone"
String selection = Data.MIMETYPE + " IN ('" + Phone.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE + "', '" + StructuredName.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE + "')";
Cursor cur = cr.query(Data.CONTENT_URI, projection, selection, null, null);
while (cur != null && cur.moveToNext()) {
long id = cur.getLong(0);
String name = cur.getString(1);
String mime = cur.getString(2); // type of row: phone / name
// get the existing <Given-name, Phone> list from the Map, or create a new one
List<String> infos;
if (contacts.containsKey(id)) {
infos = contacts.get(id);
} else {
infos = new ArrayList<String>(2);
contacts.put(id, infos);
}
// add either given-name or phone to the infos list
switch (mime) {
case Phone.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE:
infos.set(1, cur.getString(4));
break;
case StructuredName.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE:
infos.set(0, cur.getString(3));
break;
}
}

How to check if a particular CallerID is in Contact List?

I am trying to find out if the caller id is in the contacts list. So the code I am using for that:
ContentResolver resolver = this.service.getContentResolver();
String number = PhoneLookup.NUMBER;
String[] projections = { number };
String selectionClause = number + " = ?";
String[] selectionClauseArgs = { callerId };
Cursor people = resolver.query(
ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI, projections,
selectionClause, selectionClauseArgs, null);
return people.getCount() > 0 ? true : false;
I am giving the filtering functionality to the ContentResolver itself instead of fetching everything, iterating over them and checking one by one.
But I receive the following error for something reason (There are many codes but they are working just fine, since they are just subscribing to the telephony events in order to receive caller id when some one is calling!")
08-28 19:20:05.903: E/AndroidRuntime(737): java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid column number
I don't what is invalid. I am using right column name which is PhoneLookup.NUMBER constant. A similar question was asked here before: How to read contacts on Android 2.0 which I followed.

There's no phone numbers in this table. You should query it from another place.
Here's fast scratch (I belive there's better way to do it):
boolean hasPhoneNumber = (people.getInt(people.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts.HAS_PHONE_NUMBER)) > 0);
if (hasPhoneNumber) {
String id = people.getString(people.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts._ID));
String num = getNumber(id);
}
public String getNumber(String id) {
String number = null;
String name = null;
Cursor pCur = getContentResolver().query(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI, null,
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTACT_ID + " = ?", new String[] { id }, null);
if (pCur.moveToFirst()) {
number = pCur.getString(pCur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER));
name = pCur.getString(pCur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.DISPLAY_NAME));
}
pCur.close();
return number;
}

How to get Contact ID, Email, Phone number in one SQLite query ? Contacts Android Optimization

I want to fetch All Contacts atleast with one phone Number, also I want all Phone Numbers and All emails for every Contact.
Current code :
// To get All Contacts having atleast one phone number.
Uri uri = ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI;
String selection = ContactsContract.Contacts.HAS_PHONE_NUMBER + " > ?";
String[] selectionArgs = new String[] {"0"};
Cursor cu = applicationContext.getContentResolver().query(uri,
null, selection, selectionArgs, null);
// For getting All Phone Numbers and Emails further queries :
while(cu.moveToNext()){
String id = cu.getString(cu.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts._ID));
// To get Phone Numbers of Contact
Cursor pCur = context.getContentResolver().query(
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI, null,ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTACT_ID + "=?",
new String[]{id}, null);
// To get Email ids of Contact
Cursor emailCur = context.getContentResolver().query(
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.CONTENT_URI, null,
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.CONTACT_ID + " = ?",
new String[]{id}, null);
// Iterate through these cursors to get Phone numbers and Emails
}
If there are more than 1000 contacts in my Device, it is taking too much time. How can I get All Data in single query, rather than doing two additional queries for each contact?
Or is there any other way to optimize?
Thank you in Advance.

ICS: When you query from Data.CONTENT_URI you have all the rows from the associated Contact already joined - i.e. this would work:
ContentResolver resolver = getContentResolver();
Cursor c = resolver.query(
Data.CONTENT_URI,
null,
Data.HAS_PHONE_NUMBER + "!=0 AND (" + Data.MIMETYPE + "=? OR " + Data.MIMETYPE + "=?)",
new String[]{Email.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE, Phone.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE},
Data.CONTACT_ID);
while (c.moveToNext()) {
long id = c.getLong(c.getColumnIndex(Data.CONTACT_ID));
String name = c.getString(c.getColumnIndex(Data.DISPLAY_NAME));
String data1 = c.getString(c.getColumnIndex(Data.DATA1));
System.out.println(id + ", name=" + name + ", data1=" + data1);
}
If you are targeting 2.3 you need to account for the fact that HAS_PHONE_NUMBER is not available through the joins used when querying Data.
Fun.
This could, for instance, be solved either by skipping your requirement that the contact must have a phone number and instead settle for "any contact with at least a phone number or an e-mail address":
Cursor c = resolver.query(
Data.CONTENT_URI,
null,
Data.MIMETYPE + "=? OR " + Data.MIMETYPE + "=?",
new String[]{Email.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE, Phone.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE},
Data.CONTACT_ID);
If that is not an option you can always go for a horribly hacky sub-select:
Cursor c = resolver.query(
Data.CONTENT_URI,
null,
"(" + Data.MIMETYPE + "=? OR " + Data.MIMETYPE + "=?) AND " +
Data.CONTACT_ID + " IN (SELECT " + Contacts._ID + " FROM contacts WHERE " + Contacts.HAS_PHONE_NUMBER + "!=0)",
new String[]{Email.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE, Phone.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE}, Data.CONTACT_ID);
or solve it by using two Cursors:
Cursor contacts = resolver.query(Contacts.CONTENT_URI,
null, Contacts.HAS_PHONE_NUMBER + " != 0", null, Contacts._ID + " ASC");
Cursor data = resolver.query(Data.CONTENT_URI, null,
Data.MIMETYPE + "=? OR " + Data.MIMETYPE + "=?",
new String[]{Email.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE, Phone.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE},
Data.CONTACT_ID + " ASC");
int idIndex = contacts.getColumnIndexOrThrow(Contacts._ID);
int nameIndex = contacts.getColumnIndexOrThrow(Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME);
int cidIndex = data.getColumnIndexOrThrow(Data.CONTACT_ID);
int data1Index = data.getColumnIndexOrThrow(Data.DATA1);
boolean hasData = data.moveToNext();
while (contacts.moveToNext()) {
long id = contacts.getLong(idIndex);
System.out.println("Contact(" + id + "): " + contacts.getString(nameIndex));
if (hasData) {
long cid = data.getLong(cidIndex);
while (cid <= id && hasData) {
if (cid == id) {
System.out.println("\t(" + cid + "/" + id + ").data1:" +
data.getString(data1Index));
}
hasData = data.moveToNext();
if (hasData) {
cid = data.getLong(cidIndex);
}
}
}
}

I went through the exact same problem. Since then I build my own solution which is inspired from this post yet a bit different. Now I'd like to share it as my first StackOverFlow answer :-)
Its quite similar to the double cursor approach suggested by Jens. The idea is to
1- fetch relevant contact from the Contacts table
2- fetch relevant Contacts information (mail, phone, ...)
3- combine these results
The "relevant" is up to you of course but the important point is the performance !
Besides, I'm sure other solutions using well suited SQL query might as well do the job but here I only want to use the Android ContentProvider
Here is the code :
Some constants
public static String CONTACT_ID_URI = ContactsContract.Contacts._ID;
public static String DATA_CONTACT_ID_URI = ContactsContract.Data.CONTACT_ID;
public static String MIMETYPE_URI = ContactsContract.Data.MIMETYPE;
public static String EMAIL_URI = ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.DATA;
public static String PHONE_URI = ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.DATA;
public static String NAME_URI = (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB) ? ContactsContract.Data.DISPLAY_NAME_PRIMARY : ContactsContract.Data.DISPLAY_NAME;
public static String PICTURE_URI = (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB) ? ContactsContract.Contacts.PHOTO_THUMBNAIL_URI : ContactsContract.Contacts.PHOTO_ID;
public static String MAIL_TYPE = ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE;
public static String PHONE_TYPE = ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE;
1 Contact
Here I require that the Contacts must have DISPLAY_NAME free of "#" and that their informations match a given string (these requirement can of course be modified). The result of the following method is the first cursor :
public Cursor getContactCursor(String stringQuery, String sortOrder) {
Logger.i(TAG, "+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++");
Logger.e(TAG, "ContactCursor search has started...");
Long t0 = System.currentTimeMillis();
Uri CONTENT_URI;
if (stringQuery == null)
CONTENT_URI = ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI;
else
CONTENT_URI = Uri.withAppendedPath(ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_FILTER_URI, Uri.encode(stringQuery));
String[] PROJECTION = new String[]{
CONTACT_ID_URI,
NAME_URI,
PICTURE_URI
};
String SELECTION = NAME_URI + " NOT LIKE ?";
String[] SELECTION_ARGS = new String[]{"%" + "#" + "%"};
Cursor cursor = sContext.getContentResolver().query(CONTENT_URI, PROJECTION, SELECTION, SELECTION_ARGS, sortOrder);
Long t1 = System.currentTimeMillis();
Logger.e(TAG, "ContactCursor finished in " + (t1 - t0) / 1000 + " secs");
Logger.e(TAG, "ContactCursor found " + cursor.getCount() + " contacts");
Logger.i(TAG, "+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++");
return cursor;
}
This query is quite performant as you'll see !
2 Contact Details
Now let's fetch Contact informations. At this point, I dont make any link between the already fetched Contact and the retrieved information : I just fetch all informations form the Data table... Yet, to avoid useless info I still require DISPLAY_NAMES free of "#" and since I'm interested in email and phone I require that the data MIMETYPE to be either MAIL_TYPE or PHONE_TYPE (see Constants). Here is the code :
public Cursor getContactDetailsCursor() {
Logger.i(TAG, "+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++");
Logger.e(TAG, "ContactDetailsCursor search has started...");
Long t0 = System.currentTimeMillis();
String[] PROJECTION = new String[]{
DATA_CONTACT_ID_URI,
MIMETYPE_URI,
EMAIL_URI,
PHONE_URI
};
String SELECTION = ContactManager.NAME_URI + " NOT LIKE ?" + " AND " + "(" + MIMETYPE_URI + "=? " + " OR " + MIMETYPE_URI + "=? " + ")";
String[] SELECTION_ARGS = new String[]{"%" + "#" + "%", ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE, ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE};
Cursor cursor = sContext.getContentResolver().query(
ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI,
PROJECTION,
SELECTION,
SELECTION_ARGS,
null);
Long t1 = System.currentTimeMillis();
Logger.e(TAG, "ContactDetailsCursor finished in " + (t1 - t0) / 1000 + " secs");
Logger.e(TAG, "ContactDetailsCursor found " + cursor.getCount() + " contacts");
Logger.i(TAG, "+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++");
return cursor;
}
Once again you will see that this query is quite fast...
3 Combining
Now let's combine both Contact and their respective informations. The idea is to use HashMap(Key, String) where Key is the Contact id and String is whatever you like (name, email, ...).
First, I run through the Contact cursor (which is alphabetically ordered) and store names and picture uri in two different HashMap. Note also that I store all Contact id's in a List in the very same order that Contacts appear in the cursor. Lets call this list contactListId
I do the same for the Contact informations (mail and email). But now I take care of the correlation between the two cursor : if the CONTACT_ID of an email or phone does not appear in contactListId it is put aside. I check also if the email has already been encountered. Notice that this further selection can introduce asymmetries between the Name/Picture content and the Email/Phone HashMap content but don't worry.
Eventually, I run over the contactListId list and build a list of Contact object taking care of the fact that : a contact must have information (keySet condition) and that the contact must have at least a mail or an email (the case where mail == null && phone == null may appear if the contact is a Skype contact for instance).
And here is the code :
public List<Contact> getDetailedContactList(String queryString) {
/**
* First we fetch the contacts name and picture uri in alphabetical order for
* display purpose and store these data in HashMap.
*/
Cursor contactCursor = getContactCursor(queryString, NAME_URI);
List<Integer> contactIds = new ArrayList<>();
if (contactCursor.moveToFirst()) {
do {
contactIds.add(contactCursor.getInt(contactCursor.getColumnIndex(CONTACT_ID_URI)));
} while (contactCursor.moveToNext());
}
HashMap<Integer, String> nameMap = new HashMap<>();
HashMap<Integer, String> pictureMap = new HashMap<>();
int idIdx = contactCursor.getColumnIndex(CONTACT_ID_URI);
int nameIdx = contactCursor.getColumnIndex(NAME_URI);
int pictureIdx = contactCursor.getColumnIndex(PICTURE_URI);
if (contactCursor.moveToFirst()) {
do {
nameMap.put(contactCursor.getInt(idIdx), contactCursor.getString(nameIdx));
pictureMap.put(contactCursor.getInt(idIdx), contactCursor.getString(pictureIdx));
} while (contactCursor.moveToNext());
}
/**
* Then we get the remaining contact information. Here email and phone
*/
Cursor detailsCursor = getContactDetailsCursor();
HashMap<Integer, String> emailMap = new HashMap<>();
HashMap<Integer, String> phoneMap = new HashMap<>();
idIdx = detailsCursor.getColumnIndex(DATA_CONTACT_ID_URI);
int mimeIdx = detailsCursor.getColumnIndex(MIMETYPE_URI);
int mailIdx = detailsCursor.getColumnIndex(EMAIL_URI);
int phoneIdx = detailsCursor.getColumnIndex(PHONE_URI);
String mailString;
String phoneString;
if (detailsCursor.moveToFirst()) {
do {
/**
* We forget all details which are not correlated with the contact list
*/
if (!contactIds.contains(detailsCursor.getInt(idIdx))) {
continue;
}
if(detailsCursor.getString(mimeIdx).equals(MAIL_TYPE)){
mailString = detailsCursor.getString(mailIdx);
/**
* We remove all double contact having the same email address
*/
if(!emailMap.containsValue(mailString.toLowerCase()))
emailMap.put(detailsCursor.getInt(idIdx), mailString.toLowerCase());
} else {
phoneString = detailsCursor.getString(phoneIdx);
phoneMap.put(detailsCursor.getInt(idIdx), phoneString);
}
} while (detailsCursor.moveToNext());
}
contactCursor.close();
detailsCursor.close();
/**
* Finally the contact list is build up
*/
List<Contact> contacts = new ArrayList<>();
Set<Integer> detailsKeySet = emailMap.keySet();
for (Integer key : contactIds) {
if(!detailsKeySet.contains(key) || (emailMap.get(key) == null && phoneMap.get(key) == null))
continue;
contacts.add(new Contact(String.valueOf(key), pictureMap.get(key), nameMap.get(key), emailMap.get(key), phoneMap.get(key)));
}
return contacts;
}
The Contact object definition is up to you.
Hope this will help and thanks for the previous post.
Correction/Improvement
I forgot to check the phone key set : it should rather looks like
!mailKeySet.contains(key)
replaced by
(!mailKeySet.contains(key) && !phoneKeySet.contains(key))
with the phone keySet
Set<Integer> phoneKeySet = phoneMap.keySet();
I why not add an empty contact cursor check like :
if(contactCursor.getCount() == 0){
contactCursor.close();
return new ArrayList<>();
}
right after the getContactCursor call

Fast reading contacts android

Is there a faster method for reading contacts in android? For example my method with cursor take 3-5 seconds for reading 30-50 contacts. It's very long.
Cursor cursor = managedQuery(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));
if ( hasPhone.equalsIgnoreCase("1"))
hasPhone = "true";
else
hasPhone = "false" ;
if (Boolean.parseBoolean(hasPhone))
{
Cursor phones = getContentResolver().query(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI, null,ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTACT_ID +" = "+ contactId,null, null);
while (phones.moveToNext())
{
names.add(cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndexOrThrow(ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME)));
numbers.add(phones.getString(phones.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER)));
}
phones.close();
}
}
Any ideas?

your question is interesting....
reading a fast contacts because it take time to read contacts data from ContactsContract..
i don't know about another way then the one you use, but still u can increase the performance by providing a String[] projection parameter to managedQuery...
fetch only those data which u require from contactsContract, because by providing null value it fetches all the columns of the record.

Sorry for my bad english. I have created the similar but with different style using HashMap. I will paste my approach.
//Create a hashMap, Key => Raw Contact ID and value => Object of customClass
HashMap<Long, ContactStructure> mFinalHashMap = new HashMap<Long, ContactStructure>();
//Run IN query in data table. example
select mimetype_id, raw_contact_id, data1 to data14 from data where raw_contact_id IN (select _id from raw_contacts where deleted <> 1 and account_type = "phone" and account_name = "bla bla") and mimetype_id = (select _id from mimetypes where mimetype = "vnd.something.phone");
Now Create a class which will have all the data of contact.
while accessing the cursor.
while (cursor.moveToNext()) {
ContactStructure contactStructure = mFinalHashMap.get(rawContactID);
//It will return the previous instance of object, If we already put
if(rawContactStructure == null) {
contactStructure = ContactStructure.provideInstance();
}
//Now check for your required mimeType
case MIMETYPE_PHONE:
contactStructure.hasPhoneNo = true;
contactStructure.phoneNumbers.add(addDetail); //add the data1 .. to data14
break;
}
/*Demo class for saving the details*/
public class ContactMetaData {
static classContactStructure {
boolean hasPhoneNo;
List<List<String>> phoneNumbers;
public static ContactStructure provideInstance() {
contact.phoneNumbers = new ArrayList<List<String>>();
ContactStructure contact = new RawContactStructure();
return contact
}
}
use this approach, I tried with 3000 contacts with all the data, It was fast. coz its not easy to get all the contacts and their all data with in sec..

For reading contacts faster you need to use the concept of the projection
where you specify only columns which you need to fetch.
cursor.moveToFirst();
while (cursor.isAfterLast() == false) {
String contactNumber = cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER));
String contactName = cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.DISPLAY_NAME));
int phoneContactID = cursor.getInt(cursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone._ID));
int contactID = cursor.getInt(cursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts._ID));
Log.d("con ", "name " + contactName + " " + " PhoeContactID " + phoneContactID + " ContactID " + contactID)
cursor.moveToNext();
}
This will help you to reduce the timing by 90% for complete tutorial i used this site http://www.blazin.in/2016/02/loading-contacts-fast-from-android.html