I am trying to get the contact's phone number after I have retrieved their ID number from the built-in activity. However, whenever I query the database using the cursor in my code below -- I get zero rows returned even though there is a mobile number for the contact I have selected.
Can anyone point me in a better direction or show an example of how to get the contact's phone number AFTER getting their userID?
My code:
private Runnable getSMSRunnable() {
return new Runnable() {
public void run() {
Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK,
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI);
startActivityForResult(i, CONTACTS_REQUEST_CODE);
}
};
}
Returns the Log output
content://com.android.contacts/data/6802
From which i pass the ID (6802) into a method which is designed to return the phone number from the ID with the given type (in this case ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.TYPE_MOBILE)
public static String getContactPhoneNumberByPhoneType(Context context, long contactId, int type) {
String phoneNumber = null;
String[] whereArgs = new String[] { String.valueOf(contactId), String.valueOf(type) };
Log.d(TAG, String.valueOf(contactId));
Cursor cursor = context.getContentResolver().query(
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI,
null,
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTACT_ID + " = ? and "
+ ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.TYPE + " = ?", whereArgs, null);
int phoneNumberIndex = cursor
.getColumnIndexOrThrow(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER);
Log.d(TAG, String.valueOf(cursor.getCount()));
if (cursor != null) {
Log.v(TAG, "Cursor Not null");
try {
if (cursor.moveToNext()) {
Log.v(TAG, "Moved to first");
Log.v(TAG, "Cursor Moved to first and checking");
phoneNumber = cursor.getString(phoneNumberIndex);
}
} finally {
Log.v(TAG, "In finally");
cursor.close();
}
}
Log.v(TAG, "Returning phone number");
return phoneNumber;
}
Which returns null for a phone number -- which means it cannot find the row that I am trying to access -- which means that something is wrong with my query -- however if I check a contact that has a mobile phone number -- how could I get a 0 row query?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much!
I found the answer.
The reason I was not getting any rows from the cursor was because I was using the line
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTACT_ID
"The id of the row in the Contacts table that this data belongs to."
Since I was getting the URI from contacts table anyways -- this was not needed and the following should have been substituted. The ID was the one corresponding to the contact in the phone table not the raw contact.
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone._ID
Exchanging the lines returned the correct results in the query. Everything seems to be working well at the moment.
This should work, (maybe try losing the type)
Phone numbers are stored in their own table and need to be queried separately. To query the phone number table use the URI stored in the SDK variable ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI. Use a WHERE conditional to get the phone numbers for the specified contact.
if (Integer.parseInt(cur.getString(
cur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts.HAS_PHONE_NUMBER))) > 0) {
Cursor pCur = cr.query(
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI,
null,
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTACT_ID +" = ?",
new String[]{id}, null);
while (pCur.moveToNext()) {
// Do something with phones
}
pCur.close();
}
Perform a second query against the Android contacts SQLite database. The phone numbers are queried against the URI stored in ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI. The contact ID is stored in the phone table as ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTACT_ID and the WHERE clause is used to limit the data returned.
Related
I am trying to get first name and last name in contact book by phone number.
Here is my code:
Uri contactUri = Uri.withAppendedPath(ContactsContract.PhoneLookup.CONTENT_FILTER_URI, Uri.encode(phoneNumber));
Cursor cursor = cResolver.query(uri, null, null, null, null);
if(cursor != null && cursor.moveToFirst()) {
int idColumnIndex = cursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts._ID);
int firstNameIndex = cursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredName.GIVEN_NAME);
int lastNameIndex = cursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredName.FAMILY_NAME);
while (!cursor.isAfterLast()) {
long id = cursor.getLong(idColumnIndex);
contact = new MyContact();
contact.setId(id);
contact.setFirstName(cursor.getString(firstNameIndex));
contact.setLastName(cursor.getString(lastNameIndex));
}
cursor.close();
}
But firstNameIndex and lastNameIndex is always -1. What I am doing wrong ? Please help me.
PhoneLookup is a nice and quick way to get contact data by a phone number, but it returns a cursor limited to the columns mentioned in the docs.
You can see there's DISPLAY_NAME you can access, but not GIVEN_NAME, FAMILY_NAME.
GIVEN_NAME & FAMILY_NAME are fields stored in the Data table, which means you need to query that table separately to get to those fields.
So, you can just add another query using the contact ID you got from PhoneLookup (note that for each looked up phone there might be multiple contacts returned).
Here's a sample method to get first/last names from contact ID:
private void addNames(MyContact contact, long contactId) {
String[] projection = new String[] {StructuredName.GIVEN_NAME, StructuredName.FAMILY_NAME};
// filter to just StructuredName rows from the data table for the given contact
String selection = Data.CONTACT_ID + "=" + contactID + " AND " + Data.MIMETYPE + "=" + StructuredName.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE;
Cursor cursor = getContentResolver().query(Data.CONTENT_URI, projection, selection, null, null);
if (cursor.next()) {
contact.setFirstName(cursor.getString(0));
contact.setLastName(cursor.getString(1));
}
cursor.close();
}
I'm new to android and i'm working with native contact.
So my app is let user put contact display name and their number for edit/delete.
In case the contact have more that one number.
I tried a lot but still have no luck, the app still doesn't update the number or it crashes.
What I'm going to do as my understanding is:
Find name in contact that matched name user inserted and use that to get contact_id that represent this contact datagroup.
Use contact_id in 1. and the number user input to find ._ID that represent the specific row id.
Do task with ._ID we get from 2.
This is 1. code to get contact_id:
public String getPeopleUniqueID(String name, Context context) {
String s = null;
String selection = ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.DISPLAY_NAME+" like'%" + name +"%'";
String[] projection = new String[] {ContactsContract.Data.CONTACT_ID};
Cursor c = context.getContentResolver().query(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI,
projection, selection, null, null);
if(c.moveToFirst()) {
s = c.getString(c.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Data.CONTACT_ID));
}
c.close();
return s;
}
This is 2. code to get ._ID (num is number user inserted and name is from 1. > the contact_id)
public String checkPhoneNumber(String num, String name, Context context) {
String s = null;
String selection = ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER + "=?" + " AND "+ContactsContract.Data.CONTACT_ID+ "=?";
String[] projection = new String[] {ContactsContract.Data._ID};
Cursor c = context.getContentResolver().query(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI,
projection, selection, new String[]{u,name}, null);
if(c.moveToFirst()) {
s=c.getString(c.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Data._ID));
}
c.close();
if (s==null){
s = "null";
}
return s;
}
To do something like editing (num is _.ID we get from 2. and newnum is new number user want to change into).
public void editNumber(String num , String newnum) {
ArrayList<ContentProviderOperation> ops = new ArrayList<ContentProviderOperation>();
ops.add(ContentProviderOperation.newUpdate(Data.CONTENT_URI)
.withSelection(Data._ID + "=? AND " +
Data.MIMETYPE + "='" +
CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE + "'",
new String[]{num})
.withValue(Data.DATA1, newnum)
.build());
try{
getContentResolver().applyBatch(ContactsContract.AUTHORITY, ops);}
catch (RemoteException e){e.printStackTrace();}catch (OperationApplicationException e) {e.printStackTrace();}
}
And well it crashes when I call editNumber().
Can you help me fix my code and my understanding?
And another question, can I edit/insert group for the contact programatically, like I want to add this contact to family friend or co-worker group (the default group that we can set at contact edit page)?
Use ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_FILTER_URI for searching a contact based on name - to get Id or anything else. The like operator cannot handle all cases which the CONTENT_FILTER_URI does handle - For various languages, special characters etc.
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/provider/ContactsContract.Contacts.html#CONTENT_FILTER_URI
Use following uri to lookup a contact from phone number - you can get person id or anything else :
Uri lookupUri = Uri.withAppendedPath(PhoneLookup.CONTENT_FILTER_URI,
Uri.encode(phoneNumber));
In the set query you can also use contactId in the condition
For groups you can use custom mimetypes if the default one does not suit you (which is still very primitive for groups across different account types)
I am trying to get the contact's phone number after I have retrieved their ID number from the built-in activity. However, whenever I query the database using the cursor in my code below -- I get zero rows returned even though there is a mobile number for the contact I have selected.
Can anyone point me in a better direction or show an example of how to get the contact's phone number AFTER getting their userID?
My code:
private Runnable getSMSRunnable() {
return new Runnable() {
public void run() {
Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK,
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI);
startActivityForResult(i, CONTACTS_REQUEST_CODE);
}
};
}
Returns the Log output
content://com.android.contacts/data/6802
From which i pass the ID (6802) into a method which is designed to return the phone number from the ID with the given type (in this case ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.TYPE_MOBILE)
public static String getContactPhoneNumberByPhoneType(Context context, long contactId, int type) {
String phoneNumber = null;
String[] whereArgs = new String[] { String.valueOf(contactId), String.valueOf(type) };
Log.d(TAG, String.valueOf(contactId));
Cursor cursor = context.getContentResolver().query(
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI,
null,
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTACT_ID + " = ? and "
+ ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.TYPE + " = ?", whereArgs, null);
int phoneNumberIndex = cursor
.getColumnIndexOrThrow(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER);
Log.d(TAG, String.valueOf(cursor.getCount()));
if (cursor != null) {
Log.v(TAG, "Cursor Not null");
try {
if (cursor.moveToNext()) {
Log.v(TAG, "Moved to first");
Log.v(TAG, "Cursor Moved to first and checking");
phoneNumber = cursor.getString(phoneNumberIndex);
}
} finally {
Log.v(TAG, "In finally");
cursor.close();
}
}
Log.v(TAG, "Returning phone number");
return phoneNumber;
}
Which returns null for a phone number -- which means it cannot find the row that I am trying to access -- which means that something is wrong with my query -- however if I check a contact that has a mobile phone number -- how could I get a 0 row query?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much!
I found the answer.
The reason I was not getting any rows from the cursor was because I was using the line
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTACT_ID
"The id of the row in the Contacts table that this data belongs to."
Since I was getting the URI from contacts table anyways -- this was not needed and the following should have been substituted. The ID was the one corresponding to the contact in the phone table not the raw contact.
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone._ID
Exchanging the lines returned the correct results in the query. Everything seems to be working well at the moment.
This should work, (maybe try losing the type)
Phone numbers are stored in their own table and need to be queried separately. To query the phone number table use the URI stored in the SDK variable ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI. Use a WHERE conditional to get the phone numbers for the specified contact.
if (Integer.parseInt(cur.getString(
cur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts.HAS_PHONE_NUMBER))) > 0) {
Cursor pCur = cr.query(
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI,
null,
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTACT_ID +" = ?",
new String[]{id}, null);
while (pCur.moveToNext()) {
// Do something with phones
}
pCur.close();
}
Perform a second query against the Android contacts SQLite database. The phone numbers are queried against the URI stored in ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI. The contact ID is stored in the phone table as ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTACT_ID and the WHERE clause is used to limit the data returned.
I want to get some basic info of all contacts(I use api lvl 8). Currently i use this code snippet
private List<ContactInfo> readContacts() {
ContentResolver cr = getContentResolver();
Cursor cur = cr.query(ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI, null,
null, null, Phone.DISPLAY_NAME + " ASC");
for (int i = 0; i < cur.getColumnCount(); i++) {
Log.v("COlum", cur.getColumnName(i));
}
List<ContactInfo> temp = new ArrayList<ContactInfo>();
if (cur.getCount() > 0) {
while (cur.moveToNext()) {
ContactInfo mContactInfo = new ContactInfo();
String id = cur.getString(cur
.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts._ID));
mContactInfo.setId(Long.parseLong(id));
String name = cur
.getString(cur
.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME));
if (Integer
.parseInt(cur.getString(cur
.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts.HAS_PHONE_NUMBER))) > 0) {
mContactInfo.setmDisplayName(name);
// get the <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD7">phone
// number</span>
Cursor pCur = cr.query(
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI,
null,
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTACT_ID
+ " = ?", new String[] { id }, null);
while (pCur.moveToNext()) {
String phone = pCur
.getString(pCur
.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER));
mContactInfo.setmPhoneNumber(phone);
}
pCur.close();
// get email and type
Cursor emailCur = cr.query(
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.CONTENT_URI,
null,
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.CONTACT_ID
+ " = ?", new String[] { id }, null);
while (emailCur.moveToNext()) {
// This would allow you get several email <span
// class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD9">addresses</span>
// if the email addresses were stored in an array
String email = emailCur
.getString(emailCur
.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.DATA));
mContactInfo.setmEmail(email);
}
emailCur.close();
temp.add(mContactInfo);
}
}
}
return temp;
}
and pass to custom adapter (extended baseadapter). I get contact's photo using:
public static Bitmap loadContactPhoto(ContentResolver cr, long id) {
Uri uri = ContentUris.withAppendedId(
ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI, id);
InputStream input = openContactPhotoInputStream1(cr, uri);
if (input == null) {
return null;
}
return BitmapFactory.decodeStream(input);
}
I tested on my phone with 2x contacts (had photo). I took ~ 10s to fetch all contact at 1st runtime. I try force close in application settings and run again. This time it took ~2s to get data.So i want to know the most effective way to get contacts info.
I found some similar SO questions but they dont need photo. contacts in android
I tried use cursor and cursor adapter but i dont know what query to get photo_uri + contact name at the same time.
Edit: i removed all getColumnIndex i can out of loop and project only column i want. The performance is better(10s => 5s).
What i want to know :
Better way to query info and set to my ContactInfo model or the query which get name, phone number, email, photo at the same time to pass to cursor adapter.
Thanks in advance
I changed to CusorAdapter and use ContactsPhotoLoader from Contacts app and performance is improved.
To get contact info you have to work with the Android Contact API. Also you have to keep in min that you have to handle this Api in a different way for android api below API 4 (1.6)and for the Android API 5 (2.0) and higher:
I will provide you some good links that will help you:
Working With Android Contacts
Handling Contact Photos (All API Levels)
Using the Contact Picker API 2.0 and above
Retrieving Contact Information (Name, Number, and Profile Picture)
API4 and lower
Thes also some SO thread similar to yours that must b helpful for you
get contact info from android contact picker
Getting a Photo from a Contact
I'm trying to add Data record to an already exist contact, I find the contact using phone lookup, i take the contact _id field, and add a new data with raw_contact_id set to the _id field.
on some contacts it just doesn't work, it match the data to different contact.
(I think it relates to contacts that are stored on the sim card)
Please advice, maybe you have a different way to add the data
code sample:
LinkedList<Long> lcv = new LinkedList<Long>();
ContentResolver cr = getContentResolver();
Uri uri = Uri.withAppendedPath(PhoneLookup.CONTENT_FILTER_URI, Uri.encode(phoneNumber));
Cursor c = cr.query(uri, null, null, null, null);
try {
while (c.moveToNext()) {
Uri lookupUri = Uri.withAppendedPath(Contacts.CONTENT_LOOKUP_URI,
c.getString(c.getColumnIndex(PhoneLookup.LOOKUP_KEY)));
Cursor c2 = getContentResolver().query(lookupUri, new String[] { Contacts._ID, Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME },
null, null, null);
try {
if (c2.moveToNext()) {
Log.i(TAG, "found: " + c2.getLong(c2.getColumnIndex(Contacts._ID)) + ", " + c2.getString(c2.getColumnIndex(Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME)));
lcv.add(c2.getLong(c2.getColumnIndex(Contacts._ID)));
} else {
Log.e(TAG, "failed to lookup");
}
} finally {
c2.close();
}
}
} finally {
c.close();
}
for (Long rawid : lcv) {
Cursor c3 = cr.query(RawContacts.CONTENT_URI, null, RawContacts.CONTACT_ID + "=?", new String[] {rawid+""}, null);
if (c3.moveToNext()) {
Log.e(TAG,"aaaa: " + c3.getString(c3.getColumnIndex(Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME)));
} else {
Log.e(TAG,"errrrror");
}
ContentValues cv = new ContentValues();
cv.put(Data.RAW_CONTACT_ID, rawid + "");
cv.put(Data.MIMETYPE, MyMime.MIMETYPE);
cv.put(Data.DATA1, "mydata");
cv.put(Data.SYNC1, syncvalue);
Uri newIns = cr.insert(ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI, cv);
Log.i(TAG, "insert: " + newIns + ", " + name);
}
The problem lies when you select the Contacts._ID and use this id to populate the data in the LinkedList lcv .
Cursor c2 = getContentResolver().query(lookupUri, new String[] { Contacts._ID, Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME },
null, null, null);
You actually need a RAW_CONTACT_ID here.
The DISPLAY_NAME can be fetched either from Contacts database/ContactsContract.Data' OR 'database/ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredName' OR 'database/RawContactsEntity. In the later 2 cases you will be able to fetch the DISPLAY_NAME using RAW_CONTACT_ID
Couple of Key pointers:
Contacts._ID = Data.CONTACT_ID
RawContacts._ID = Data.RAW_CONTACT_ID
RawContacts.CONTACT_ID = Contacts._ID
RawContactsEntity._ID = RawContacts._ID
Sounds confusing?? Let me try...
The Contacts database is divided into 3 tables contacts, raw contacts, and data.
Each table contains column (_ID) which is an auto incremented primary key.
data table contains all the contact info like phone number, mail id, address etc.
The raw contacts points to the actual contact created. Hence we use the raw contacts while adding a contact.
The user cannot add any data in the contacts table. The data in this table is populated internally due to aggregation of contacts.
The reason your logic worked for some of the contacts is: _ID for contacts, raw contacts remains same until there is any contact aggregation taking place. Lets say you add two contacts with same name abc. Here the _ID for raw contacts increments twice while _ID for contacts increments only once as these two contacts gets merged due to the aggregation of contacts
Refer this for more details.
The best approach to fetch the info in your case is by using ContactsContract.RawContactsEntity ( an outer join of the raw_contacts table with the data table)
Reference: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/provider/ContactsContract.RawContactsEntity.html