Comparing phone numbers in Android

Question

I need to compare two phone numbers to determine if they\'re from the same sender/receiver. The user may send a message to a contact, and that contact may reply.

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Answer 1

Android has nice PhoneNumberUtils, and i guess your looking for :

    public static boolean compare (String a, String b)

look in : http://developer.android.com/reference/android/telephony/PhoneNumberUtils.html

using it should look like this :

String phone1   
String phone2 

 if (PhoneNumberUtils.compare(phone1, phone2)) {
    //they are the same do whatever you want!
   }