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user2261597
user2261597

Reputation:

android contacts unformatted and formatted number

Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge, Android 6.0.1, Microsoft Exchange Active Sync.

In my app I enumerate all phone numbers for a person. For some people the mobile phone number is listed twice, one with the (manual) formatting I use when I enter the number in Outlook and one with all formatting removed.

Entered and displayed correctly: 010-123 45 67 Also for some people my app gets: 0101234567. This is what is displayed if I send an SMS to that person and Android seems to remember that number and save it invisibly in the address book.

If I look up the person in both Outlook Contacts and on the phone contacts, only the formatted number is visible.

Any clue how to remove the unformatted numbers?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 419

Answers (1)

user2261597
user2261597

Reputation:

Solved it although I'm sure there is a better way.

phoneNumber = phoneCursor.getString(phoneCursor.getColumnIndex(NUMBER));
String stripped = stripSeparators(phoneNumber);
int count = theNumbers.size();
boolean present = false;
for (int i = 0; i < count; i++)
{
  if (stripSeparators(theNumbers.get(i)).equals(stripped) == true)
  {
    present = true;
    break;
  }
}
if (present == false)
  theNumbers.add(phoneNumber);

Upvotes: 0

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