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Greg Giacovelli
Greg Giacovelli

Reputation: 10184

Getting Data from ContactsContract.Contacts

I have an Address Book in an emulator with one entity in it.

I create a contact chooser for my contacts:

Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK);
intent.setData(ContactsContract.CONTENT_URI);
startActivityForResult(intent, MY_CODE);

I select the single entry in my address book and I get back an intent that has a data uri like:

content://com.android.contacts/contacts/lookup/0n354B31353539292D4553313F3F39/1/

Cool it's a CONTENT_LOOKUP_URI for ContactsContract.Contacts. I can use it immediately to get things directly accessible in ContactsContract.Contacts, like the display name. Awesome great. Ok now let's say I want to get data from ContactsContract.Contacts.Data or ContactsContract.Contacts.Photo for that user. Reading the documentation for both CONTENT_DIRECTORY entries in both ContactsContract.Contacts.Photo/Data:

This directory can be used either with a CONTENT_URI or CONTENT_LOOKUP_URI.

So I tried what's logical:

uri = Uri.withAppendedPath(uri, ContactsContract.Contacts.Photo.CONTENT_DIRECTORY);
Cursor c = myContentResolver.query(uri, null, null, null); // simplified
...

Now I get an error that is annoying:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unknown URL content://com.android.contacts/contacts/lookup/0n354B31353539292D4553313F3F39/1/photo

What the heck? The Contact has a display name, and yes it has a photo. Why is this considered incorrect? I have tried this on both 2.1 and 2.2 so far.

Documentation for ContactsContract.Contacts.Photo

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3382

Answers (2)

Abu Yousuf
Abu Yousuf

Reputation: 6107

Use this code to get PhoneNumber of a Contact from ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI 

    String contactID = null;
    Cursor cursor = context.getContentResolver().query(uri,
            new String[]{ContactsContract.Contacts._ID},
            null, null, null);

    if (cursor.moveToFirst()) {

        contactID = cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts._ID));
    }

    cursor.close();

    // Using the contact ID now we will get contact phone number
    Cursor cursorPhone = context.getContentResolver().query(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI,
            new String[]{ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER},

            ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTACT_ID + " = ? AND " +
                    ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.TYPE + " = " +
                    ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.TYPE_MOBILE,

            new String[]{contactID},
            null);

    if (cursorPhone.moveToFirst()) {
        phoneNo = cursorPhone.getString(cursorPhone.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER));
    }

    cursorPhone.close();

Upvotes: 0

J.Williams
J.Williams

Reputation: 1425

Answer is late but I hope somebody can find it helpful.

For android < 3.0 it doesn't work. Use instead the _ID:

Uri contactUri;
//if at least HC uses lookupUri which is more efficient; for previous versions does not work
if (AT_LEAST_HONEYCOMB) {
    contactUri = getLookupUri(contactId, contactLookupKey);
} else {
    contactUri = Uri.withAppendedPath(Contacts.CONTENT_URI, "" + contactId);
}
Uri contactDetailsUri = Uri.withAppendedPath(contactUri, Contacts.Data.CONTENT_DIRECTORY);

// contactDetailsUri android<3.0: com.android.contacts/contacts/1/data 
//contactDetailsUri android>=3.0: com.android.contacts/contacts/lookup/0n354B31353539292D4553313F3F39/1/data



Cursor detailsCursor = getActivity().getContentResolver().query(
                    contactDetailsUri,
                    PROJECTION,
                    null,
                    null,
                    SORT_ORDER);

PS: sorry for ugly code

Upvotes: 1

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