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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.

How to fast the contacts loading in listview on android

in my app i am listing contacts in a listview. no of contacts is 1000+. i get the contacts
by using ContentResolver query that is cr.query(...),store the values in an arraylist
and after that load the array list in setListAdapter(...). to display the all contacts my
apps takes nearly 1 minute so that i use Async task but there is no big differences by using the async task.
i need to display all contacts within 2 to 4 seconds. i check in the default contacts
application on android simulator which is load within in 2 to 4 seconds. i have spend
long time in google. but i could not get any helpful solution. please help me how to fast the loading contacts on listview. please help me.
my coding sample:
private ArrayList<ContactListEntry> loadContactListInternal(String searchString) {
ArrayList<ContactListEntry> contactList = new ArrayList<ContactListEntry>();
ContentResolver cr = getContentResolver();
Cursor cur = null;
String[] projection = new String[] {BaseColumns._ID,ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME,ContactsContract.Contacts.PHOTO_ID};
....
cur=cr.query(ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI, projection, selection, null, ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME + " ASC");
while (cur.moveToNext()) {
int id = Integer.parseInt(cur.getString(0));
....
if (input !=null)
photo = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(input);
....
ArrayList<ContactListEntry.PhoneEntry> phoneEntries = new ArrayList<ContactListEntry.PhoneEntry>();
String[] projection1 = new String[] {ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER,ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.TYPE};
Cursor pcur = cr.query(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI,projection1, ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTACT_ID + " = ?", new String[] { String.valueOf(id) }, null);
while (pcur.moveToNext()) {
...
}
pcur.close();
ContactListEntry entry = new ContactListEntry(id, name, photo, phoneEntries);
contactList.add(entry);
}
cur.close();
return contactList;
}
.....
in another class
private void selectionUpdated() {
....
setListAdapter(new SelectedArrayAdapter(this, app.selectedContacts));
...
}

Use the Concept of projections and selection arguments to retrive the contacts in my case for 500 contacts intially it was taking 12 sec.
Now it is taking 350ms(lessthan second)
void getAllContacts() {
long startnow;
long endnow;
startnow = android.os.SystemClock.uptimeMillis();
ArrayList arrContacts = new ArrayList();
Uri uri = ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI;
String selection = ContactsContract.Contacts.HAS_PHONE_NUMBER;
Cursor cursor = ctx.getContentResolver().query(uri, new String[]{ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER, ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.DISPLAY_NAME, ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone._ID, ContactsContract.Contacts._ID}, selection, null, ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.DISPLAY_NAME + " ASC");
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();
}
cursor.close();
cursor = null;
endnow = android.os.SystemClock.uptimeMillis();
Log.d("END", "TimeForContacts " + (endnow - startnow) + " ms");
}
More information on this link http://www.blazin.in/2016/02/loading-contacts-fast-from-android.html ....

So your problem is that you do a lot of subqueries for each contact. I has the same issue once upon a time. My case was that I showed many contacts and allowed the user to click on any of them. After that I started processing the contact in another activity.
Back then I finally decided that I should display only the name and lazily fetch all the other data later on, just before I launch the next activity. This was amazing: decreased the speed of my program almost by a factor of 200, and the operations became completely invisible to the user.
The default android list does the same if I am not wrong - it displays only the name, and later on loads all the other contact-related data.

i use cursor adapter and i cut the databse,arrayadapter and optimize the code.

Consider having just one query and getting rid of the sub query idea (as already suggested). You can achieve speed by just querying using the Content Uri:
"ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI"
This URI also has the "ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME" field.
You might also want to consider doing this query and working with your adapter in a seperate thread to make it completely transparent.
This worked for me.

OPTIMIZED SOLUTION HERE.....
private static final String[] PROJECTION = new String[] {
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTACT_ID,
ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME,
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER
};
.
.
.
ContentResolver cr = getContentResolver();
Cursor cursor = cr.query(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI, PROJECTION, null, null, null);
if (cursor != null) {
try {
final int nameIndex = cursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME);
final int numberIndex = cursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER);
String name, number;
while (cursor.moveToNext()) {
name = cursor.getString(nameIndex);
number = cursor.getString(numberIndex);
}
} finally {
cursor.close();
}
}
CHEERS...:)

Fetching a large number of contacts

I'm trying to fetch all the Phone numbers and Emails in Android.by using this code.
enter code here
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;
List<String> temp = new ArrayList<String>();
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)){
}
}
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)){
}
}
emailCur.close();
}
}
This code is working fine. but for the large number number of contacts let's say 5000 contacts then it blocks the UI thread.how to create a ListAdapter for displaying all these contacts.If i fetch all the contacts in background user will see the empty list for a long time.please suggest some solution

I had very similar problem some time ago even with significantly lower number of contacts.
I needed to populate all contacts in list view and allow the user to select from them. Initially I was loading all the contact information in the list view. However this required really a lot of queries, which is what actually is slow.
So I changed my design: I selected only the Contact name and the Contact id and recorded it in an object. Afterwards when the user of my app selected any contact I loaded only his data. This turned to be drastically faster (as expected). And in my case it worked perfectly, because I was querying a lot of information which I actually never needed (that is phone numbers and emails of all not-selected contacts).
Hopefully you will be able to redesign your app in similar way. However if you need to display the contents of the data variable in the listview right away, you really might turn to need lazy-loading list view with adapter (lets just hope it will perform smoothly even on fast scroll).

android ContactsContract query to show in listview

i am querying contacts through
private Cursor cursor;
private static final String SORT_ORDER = ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME + " ASC ";
String[] myProjection = new String[] { ContactsContract.Contacts._ID,
ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME,
ContactsContract.Contacts.PHOTO_ID,
ContactsContract.Contacts.HAS_PHONE_NUMBER,
ContactsContract.Contacts.STARRED};
cursor = managedQuery(ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI, myProjection, null, null, SORT_ORDER);
and its giving me all contacts details.But my issue is its showing contacts with no entries as well.I want to query and show only those contacts which have at least an email or phone number .If contacts have no phone or email attached to it i dont want to show in my list view. What selection parameters should i need to give to filter them in my query.
Thanks

After query for your requirement use something like this:
if (Integer.parseInt(cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts.HAS_PHONE_NUMBER))) > 0)
{
//show in Listview
}
else
{
Cursor emailCur = cr.query(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.CONTENT_URI,null,ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.CONTACT_ID + " = ?",new String[]{id}, null);
if(emailCur.moveToNext())
{
//show in Listview
}
}