How to open a contact card in Android by ID

Question

Is it possible to open an android contact card by contact\'s ID? It works with the phone-number. Here is an example, if I use

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Answer 1

I was trying to open a contact card using the listed here methods, but somehow the contacts activity was closing immediately after it was opening.

it seemed that the contact activity didn't accept my old content uri.

I resolved this problem using the getLookupUri (long contactId, String lookupKey) method of ContactsContract.Contacts class for obtaining the right content uri https://developer.android.com/reference/android/provider/ContactsContract.Contacts.html#getLookupUri(long, java.lang.String)

So the code for opening a contact card becomes:

Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
String lookupKey = phonesCursor.getString(phonesCursor.getColumnIndexOrThrow(ContactsContract.PhoneLookup.LOOKUP_KEY));
long contactId = phonesCursor.getLong(phonesCursor.getColumnIndexOrThrow(ContactsContract.PhoneLookup._ID));
Uri uri = ContactsContract.Contacts.getLookupUri(contactId, lookupKey);
intent.setData(uri);
startActivity(intent);