I'm working on Android 2.0 and am trying to receive a list of all contacts.
Since android.provider.Contacts.People is deprecated, I have to use android.provider.ContactsContract, But I can't find a proper example of how to use it (ex: retrieve a list of all contacts on the phonebook).
Anyone knows where to find such an example?
Just want to add, when you are retrieving the contacts you might get a lot of "garbage" contacts - for example some email addresses that a user has at some point send an email to, but are not aggregated... If you want only the contacts visible to the user, as in the Androids own contacts application you need to restrict the selection to only IN_VISIBLE_GROUP.
String where = ContactsContract.Contacts.IN_VISIBLE_GROUP + "= ? ";
String[] selectionArgs = new String[] { "1" };
I think it is important to have the code from this URL http://coderzheaven.com/2011/06/get-all-details-from-contacts-in-android/ on StackOverflow cause at times links like that go down.
public void readContacts(){
ContentResolver cr = getContentResolver();
Cursor cur = cr.query(ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI,
null, null, null, null);
if (cur.getCount() > 0) {
while (cur.moveToNext()) {
String id = cur.getString(cur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts._ID));
String name = cur.getString(cur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME));
if (Integer.parseInt(cur.getString(cur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts.HAS_PHONE_NUMBER))) > 0) {
System.out.println("name : " + name + ", ID : " + id);
// get the phone number
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));
System.out.println("phone" + 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 addresses
// if the email addresses were stored in an array
String email = emailCur.getString(
emailCur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.DATA));
String emailType = emailCur.getString(
emailCur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.TYPE));
System.out.println("Email " + email + " Email Type : " + emailType);
}
emailCur.close();
// Get note.......
String noteWhere = ContactsContract.Data.CONTACT_ID + " = ? AND " + ContactsContract.Data.MIMETYPE + " = ?";
String[] noteWhereParams = new String[]{id,
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Note.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE};
Cursor noteCur = cr.query(ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI, null, noteWhere, noteWhereParams, null);
if (noteCur.moveToFirst()) {
String note = noteCur.getString(noteCur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Note.NOTE));
System.out.println("Note " + note);
}
noteCur.close();
//Get Postal Address....
String addrWhere = ContactsContract.Data.CONTACT_ID + " = ? AND " + ContactsContract.Data.MIMETYPE + " = ?";
String[] addrWhereParams = new String[]{id,
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredPostal.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE};
// Cursor addrCur = cr.query(ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI,
// null, null, null, null);
Cursor addrCur = cr.query(ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI,
null, addrWhere, addrWhereParams, null);
while(addrCur.moveToNext()) {
String poBox = addrCur.getString(
addrCur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredPostal.POBOX));
String street = addrCur.getString(
addrCur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredPostal.STREET));
String city = addrCur.getString(
addrCur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredPostal.CITY));
String state = addrCur.getString(
addrCur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredPostal.REGION));
String postalCode = addrCur.getString(
addrCur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredPostal.POSTCODE));
String country = addrCur.getString(
addrCur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredPostal.COUNTRY));
String type = addrCur.getString(
addrCur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredPostal.TYPE));
// Do something with these....
}
addrCur.close();
// Get Instant Messenger.........
String imWhere = ContactsContract.Data.CONTACT_ID + " = ? AND " + ContactsContract.Data.MIMETYPE + " = ?";
String[] imWhereParams = new String[]{id,
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Im.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE};
Cursor imCur = cr.query(ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI,
null, imWhere, imWhereParams, null);
if (imCur.moveToFirst()) {
String imName = imCur.getString(
imCur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Im.DATA));
String imType;
imType = imCur.getString(
imCur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Im.TYPE));
}
imCur.close();
// Get Organizations.........
String orgWhere = ContactsContract.Data.CONTACT_ID + " = ? AND " + ContactsContract.Data.MIMETYPE + " = ?";
String[] orgWhereParams = new String[]{id,
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Organization.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE};
Cursor orgCur = cr.query(ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI,
null, orgWhere, orgWhereParams, null);
if (orgCur.moveToFirst()) {
String orgName = orgCur.getString(orgCur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Organization.DATA));
String title = orgCur.getString(orgCur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Organization.TITLE));
}
orgCur.close();
}
}
}
}
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