Adding rows into Cursor manually

Question

I have an array of phone numbers and I want to get the corresponding contact names from the contacts database.

In the array of phone numbers, I also have some number

Answer 1

I use a solution that does the trick for all my different needs, and which is simpler than implementing Cursor.
Here is an example where I have to add extra "playlist" rows to a Cursor, retrieved from the Mediastore. I add rows at first indexes of the original Cursor :

public class CursorWithExtraPlaylists extends CursorWrapper {

public static final int ID_COLUMN_INDEX = 0;
public static final int NAME_COLUMN_INDEX = 1;

private int mPos = -1;
private Context mContext;
private Playlist[] extras;

public CursorWithExtraPlaylists(Cursor cursor, Context context,
        Playlist[] extras) {
    super(cursor);
    mContext = context;
    this.extras = extras;
}

@Override
public int getCount() {
    return super.getCount() + extras.length;
}

@Override
public int getPosition() {
    return mPos;
}

@Override
public boolean moveToFirst() {
    return moveToPosition(0);
}

@Override
public boolean moveToLast() {
    return moveToPosition(getCount() - extras.length);
}

@Override
public boolean move(int offset) {
    return moveToPosition(mPos + offset);
}

@Override
public boolean moveToPosition(int position) {
    // Make sure position isn't past the end of the cursor
    final int count = getCount();
    if (position >= count) {
        mPos = count;
        return false;
    }
    // Make sure position isn't before the beginning of the cursor
    if (position < 0) {
        mPos = -1;
        return false;
    }
    // Check for no-op moves, and skip the rest of the work for them
    if (position == mPos) {
        return true;
    }

    mPos = position;
    if (mPos > 0) {
        // ok, that concerns super cursor
        return super.moveToPosition(mPos - 1);
    }
    return true;
}

@Override
public boolean moveToNext() {
    return moveToPosition(mPos + 1);
}

@Override
public boolean moveToPrevious() {
    return moveToPosition(mPos - 1);
}

private boolean isPointingOnExtras() {
    if (-1 == mPos || getCount() == mPos) {
        throw new CursorIndexOutOfBoundsException(mPos, getCount());
    }
    if (mPos <= extras.length - 1) {
        // this is a request on an extra value
        return true;
    }
    return false;
}

private Object getExtraValue(int columnIndex) {
    switch (columnIndex) {
    case ID_COLUMN_INDEX:
        return extras[mPos].getId();
    case NAME_COLUMN_INDEX:
        return extras[mPos].getName(mContext);
    }
    return null;
}

@Override
public int getInt(int columnIndex) {
    if (isPointingOnExtras())
        return (Integer) getExtraValue(columnIndex);
    int res = super.getInt(columnIndex);
    return res;
}

@Override
public String getString(int columnIndex) {

    if (isPointingOnExtras())
        return getExtraValue(columnIndex).toString();
    return super.getString(columnIndex);
}

public static class Playlist {
    private int mId;
    private int mNameResId;

    public Playlist(int mId, int nameResId) {
        this.mId = mId;
        this.mNameResId = nameResId;
    }

    public int getId() {
        return mId;
    }

    public String getName(Context mContext) {
        return mContext.getResources().getString(mNameResId);
    }

}
}

Original cursor has 2 columns (int,String), so I construct it with an array of extra rows objects.