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Ilya Gazman
Ilya Gazman

Reputation: 32221

How to search contacts by name and phone number?

I am using Contacts.CONTENT_FILTER_URI to search for contacts.

Uri contentUri = Uri.withAppendedPath(
                ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_FILTER_URI,
                Uri.encode(searchString));

The searchstring can be either a number or a name. That works great.
My only problem is that the result does not contain a contact phone number.

I know that I can get it by querying ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI. However, I would like to find a solution that will give me a contact name and phone number with a single query.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1206

Answers (1)

marmor
marmor

Reputation: 28179

You should use Phone.CONTENT_FILTER_URI instead of Contacts.CONTENT_FILTER_URI

Docs say:

The filter is applied to display names as well as phone numbers.

Try this:

Uri filterUri = Uri.withAppendedPath(Phone.CONTENT_FILTER_URI, Uri.encode(searchString));
String[] projection = new String[]{ Phone.CONTACT_ID, Phone.DISPLAY_NAME, Phone.NUMBER };
Cursor cur = getContentResolver().query(filterUri, projection, null, null, null);

Upvotes: 2

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