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Search contacts provider for phone numbers in multiple formats?

I've been working on a block of code to let the user search (character by character using an AutoCompleteTextView) contacts by name, email or phone number. I've worked out the below code:
// General contact data, so we have to get the DATA1 attribute and use MIMETYPE
// to figure out what it is. Usually we'd query, say, ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.CONTENT_URI
Uri uri = ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI;
// Limit the query results to only the columns we need for faster operations.
// Using a projection also seems to make the query DISTINCT
String[] projection = new String[] {ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME,
ContactsContract.Data.DATA1,
ContactsContract.Data.MIMETYPE};
// Find contact records with an email address or phone number
// Search the name and data1 field (which may contain an email or phone number)
// for user-entered search phrase
String filter = "(" + ContactsContract.Data.MIMETYPE + "=? OR " + ContactsContract.Data.MIMETYPE + "=?)"
+ " AND (" + ContactsContract.Data.DATA1 + " LIKE ? OR " + ContactsContract.Data.DISPLAY_NAME + " LIKE ?)";
String wildcardedConstraint = "%" + constraintString + "%";
String[] filterParams = new String[]{ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE, ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE, wildcardedConstraint, wildcardedConstraint};
// Sort contacts with the most recently contacted ones first. That's often 0 (unset)
// so do a sub-sort by last updated date, most recent contacts first
String orderBy = ContactsContract.Contacts.LAST_TIME_CONTACTED + " DESC, " + ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTACT_LAST_UPDATED_TIMESTAMP + " DESC";
Cursor cursor = getContext().getContentResolver().query(uri, projection, filter, filterParams, orderBy);
if (cursor != null) {
while (cursor.moveToNext()) {
String name = cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Data.DISPLAY_NAME));
String data1 = cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Data.DATA1));
String mimetype = cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Data.MIMETYPE));
String number = null;
String email = null;
if (mimetype.equals(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE)) {
email = data1;
} else if (mimetype.equals(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE)) {
number = data1;
}
items.add(new Person(name, number, email));
Log.e("temp", name + " " + data1 + " " + mimetype);
}
cursor.close();
}
There is a problem with the phone number search, however. In contacts, phone numbers are in many different formats:
+101234567890
(123) 456-7890
1234567890
123-456-7890
And so on.
How can I adapt my Contacts query filter so the user's input will find phone numbers in any format--preferably without making the entire query extremely slow?
Some solutions I've found rely on editing table data to standardize the phone numbers, which isn't an option with contacts. Maybe that normalized number field would work... if I could find a way to easily build it into this query on the Contacts Data table. I know I could do extra phone number searches for each record, or use Java to make the checks, but I think that would make it very slow. Perhaps a regexp SQL operator in the query--but I don't know how I could make it work for the user's character-by-character search where they may have only entered part of the phone number.
Any ideas?

You can do this with Android's built-in SQLite function PHONE_NUMBERS_EQUAL, which compares two numbers and will return 1 if they're identical enough for caller ID purposes.
You simply need to change your filter as follows:
String filter = "(" + ContactsContract.Data.MIMETYPE + "=? OR "
+ ContactsContract.Data.MIMETYPE + "=?) AND "
+ "(PHONE_NUMBERS_EQUAL(" + ContactsContract.Data.DATA1 + ", ?, 0) OR "
+ ContactsContract.Data.DATA1 + " LIKE ? OR "
+ ContactsContract.Data.DISPLAY_NAME + " LIKE ?)";
And add another wildcardedConstraint to your filterParams:
String[] filterParams = new String[] { ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE,
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE,
wildcardedConstraint,
wildcardedConstraint,
wildcardedConstraint };
The final INTEGER parameter in the PHONE_NUMBERS_EQUAL function indicates whether to use strict number comparation; 1 meaning do use strict, 0 meaning non-strict. Apparently this is a system-wide setting that can be retrieved from the system Resources, but I am uncertain as to what factors dictate how this is determined for a particular environment. The example above just uses non-strict comparation. However, if it is a concern, the actual resource value can be obtained like so:
private static final String STRICT_COMPARE = "config_use_strict_phone_number_comparation";
...
int strictResId = Resources.getSystem().getIdentifier(STRICT_COMPARE, "bool", "android");
boolean useStrict = Resources.getSystem().getBoolean(strictResId);

Android Contact Picking Uri

I have a string content//com.android.contacts/contacts/contacts/2 ie aft the user has selected a particular number.
From this string, how do i get the phone number of this particular contact?
I am new to android environment, so my question might seem a bit primitive.
Cursor c = (Cursor)mAdapter.getItem(a.keyAt(i));
Long id = c.getLong(c.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts._ID));
contacts.add(ContentUris.withAppendedId(ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI, id));
chosenContacts = sb.toString();
chosenContacts is my string and that contains content//com.android.contacts/contacts/contacts/2

You need a second request. You can use the id of your snippet for it:
Cursor phoneNoCursor = contentResolver.query(
Data.CONTENT_URI,
new String[] {Phone.NUMBER, Phone.TYPE, Phone.LABEL},
Data.MIMETYPE + " = ? AND " + Data.CONTACT_ID + " = ? ",
new String[] {String.valueOf(Phone.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE, id)},
null);
For the list of possible types see the description of the Phone class. But maybe the number itself and its label are enough anyway.

Update Emails that have the same type(e.g TYPE_HOME) with different strings

Anyone knows how I can update two emails in phone book of android with same TYPE
(for example: TYPE_HOME), but update each mail with a different string.
In my way I update the emails, but the emails that have the same TYPE, are updated simultaneously with the same string and i don't want this.
What I want
Email_1->TYPE_HOME->String_Hello
Email_2->TYPE_HOME->String_Hello_again
Different string but the same type.
Here is my code
EditText etEmail = (EditText)contentEmail.findViewWithTag("ete1");
String stEtEmail = etEmail.getText().toString();
values.clear();
Log.w(SocioEdit.class.getName(), "TESTE DO TYPE" +String.valueOf(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.TYPE).charAt(3));
String mailWhere = ContactsContract.Data.CONTACT_ID + "=? AND " + ContactsContract.Data.MIMETYPE + "=? AND " + String.valueOf(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.TYPE) + "= ?";
String[] mailWhereParams = new String[]{String.valueOf(idContacto),ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE,String.valueOf(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.TYPE_HOME)};
values.put(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.DATA,stEtEmail);
Log.w(SocioEdit.class.getName(),"TESTE DA STRING DO EMAIL-->" +stEtEmail);
cr.update(ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI,values, mailWhere, mailWhereParams);
}

As we know that Email has a stored in Data table,
So it has its id and we can get the data ID as well as Email type and Email information
so if we get the email Id in data table
we can do it like this:
cr.update(ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI,values, Data.id+"=?", new String[]{String.valueOf(ID)});

Update a label of email adrress

I need to update the Label email address on phone book of android. Anyone know how i can do this?
Here is my code
String stEtEmail = etEmail.getText().toString(); //EMAIL
String stBtnLabelEmail = etBtnLabelEmail.getText().toString(); //**LABEL**
values.clear();
String mailWhere = ContactsContract.Data.CONTACT_ID + "=? AND " + ContactsContract.Data.MIMETYPE + "=?";
String[] mailWhereParams = new String[]{String.valueOf(idContacto),ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE};
values.put(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.DATA,stEtEmail);
cr.update(ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI, values, mailWhere, mailWhereParams);
I don't know how i can update the my label of email.

I have get the solution:
values.put(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.TYPE,ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.TYPE_HOME); //TYPE_WORK TYPE_HOME.......
values.put(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.LABEL,stBtnLabelEmail);

Android and Facebook Contact Picker Issuer

The short version of my question is: How do I access the phone numbers of contacts that were synced from 3rd party apps?
Here is the long version:
I can access the regular Android contacts pretty easily. The issue is when the only information in the contact list is synced with a 3rd party app like Facebook or LinkedIn. If I physically went and typed someone's phone number into the Google Contacts List, everything works fine.
However, if this phone number came from syncing my facebook account to my contact list, no phone number shows up, even though if I navigated to Google's pre-made contact list I can see a phone number is actually attached to the contact. Here is the code I use for getting the phone numbers.
public void populateNumberLists(View view)
{
LinearLayout ll = (LinearLayout) view;
TextView tv = (TextView) ll.findViewById(R.id.contactEntryText);
String str = (String) tv.getText();
Cursor cursor = getNumbers(str);
String[] fields = new String[] {
cursor.getColumnName(1).toString()
};
SimpleCursorAdapter adapter = new SimpleCursorAdapter(this, R.layout.numberentry, cursor,
fields, new int[] {R.id.numberEntryText});
mNumberList.setAdapter(adapter);
}
private Cursor getNumbers(String str)
{
final Uri URIs = ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI;
final String ID = ContactsContract.Contacts.LOOKUP_KEY;
String id = "";
ContentResolver cr = getContentResolver();
Cursor cu = cr.query(URIs, null, ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME + " = '" + str + "'", null, null);
if (cu.moveToFirst()) {
id = cu.getString(cu.getColumnIndex(ID));
}
cu.close();
// Run query
Uri uri = Phone.CONTENT_URI;
String[] projection = new String[] {
Phone._ID,
Phone.NUMBER
};
String selection = Phone.LOOKUP_KEY + " = '" + id + "' and (" + Phone.TYPE + " = '" + Phone.TYPE_HOME+"' or " + Phone.TYPE + " = '" + Phone.TYPE_MOBILE+"' or " + Phone.TYPE + " = '" + Phone.TYPE_WORK+"' or " + Phone.TYPE + " = '" + Phone.TYPE_WORK_MOBILE+"')";
String[] selectionArgs = null;
String sortOrder = ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME + " COLLATE LOCALIZED ASC";
return managedQuery(uri, projection, selection, selectionArgs, null);
}
Basically, the populateNumberLists function takes a clicked item from a list view, determines which contact from the list was clicked and calls the function getNumbers.
The getNumbers function takes actual name that was clicked, gets the lookup key for that name, then grabs all the phone numbers associated with that lookup key.
Oh, related to this, the only names displayed in the contact list are ones where ContactsContract.Contacts.HAS_PHONE_NUMBER equals 1. So I know that all the contacts that can be selected have a phone number attached.

Facebook is not included in the ContactPicker because Facebook forbid that.
This is a politically thing and won't be solved soon: Google wants Facebook to share data, Facebook uses Google but doesn't share..

You'll have to use the Facebook SDK for android to do this. Use an FQL query to get the phone number.