Get contact name given a phone number in Android

Question

I am trying to retrieve contact names given the contact phone number. I made a function that should work in all API versions, by I can\'t make it work in 1.6 and I can\'t se

Answer 1

public static String getContactName(Context context, String phoneNumber)
{
    ContentResolver cr = context.getContentResolver();
    Uri uri = Uri.withAppendedPath(PhoneLookup.CONTENT_FILTER_URI, Uri.encode(phoneNumber));
    Cursor cursor = cr.query(uri, new String[]{PhoneLookup.DISPLAY_NAME}, null, null, null);
    if (cursor == null)
    {
        return null;
    }
    String contactName = null;
    if(cursor.moveToFirst()) 
    {
        contactName = cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex(PhoneLookup.DISPLAY_NAME));
    }

    if(cursor != null && !cursor.isClosed()) {
        cursor.close();
    }

    return contactName;
}