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B. Clay Shannon-B. Crow Raven
B. Clay Shannon-B. Crow Raven

Reputation: 10297

Is there an accepted/received way of checking to see if a person (phone number) is in the Contact List?

Is there an accepted/received way of checking to see if a person (phone number) is in the Contact List?

I'm hoping there's something I can call like this:

bool bInContactList = InContactList("1415922353");

Upvotes: 0

Views: 71

Answers (2)

Darth Beleg
Darth Beleg

Reputation: 2667

It is not as simple as you want but you can query a Contacts content provider for the contact associated with a phone number:

Uri lookupUri = Uri.withAppendedPath(PhoneLookup.CONTENT_FILTER_URI, Uri.encode(phoneNumber));
Cursor c = getContentResolver().query(lookupUri, new String[] {PhoneLookup._ID}, null, null, null);
if (c.getCount() > 0) {
    // there is some contact
} else {
    // there is no contacts with phoneNumber
}

The application needs android.permission.READ_CONTACTS permission to access contacts data.

You can check Android Developer site for further references about content providers and android.providers package documentation for the list of available standard providers in Android.

Upvotes: 3

Wilmer
Wilmer

Reputation: 1045

I am afraid you did not provide enough information about the language you are talking about. If you use Java -for example- you have a contains method (common to all collections) so, if you want to know if a certain String is contained in a collection you could do it by invoking this method:

boolean found = someCollection.conmtains("1415922353");

Upvotes: 1

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