How to update existing contact?

Question

I have one existing contact, I need to add a work address to that existing contact. I am using the following code, but it\'s not working.

String selectPhone          


        

Answer 1

Each field (email, name, adreess) has its own mime type, which you should use in order to update the field.

We will work with Data table, where each Data.RAW_CONTACT_ID represents a detail about some contact.

So, we need to find the Data.RAW_CONTACT_ID where the id is the id of the contact you want to edit.

I hope this code should be helpful to you.

    String selectPhone = Data.RAW_CONTACT_ID + "=? AND " + Data.MIMETYPE + "='" + 
                        ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredPostal.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE +  "'" ; 
                    String[] phoneArgs = new String[]{String.valueOf(rawContactId)}; 
                    ops.add(ContentProviderOperation.newUpdate(Data.CONTENT_URI) 
                        .withSelection(selectPhone, phoneArgs) 
                        .withValue(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredPostal.TYPE, ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredPostal.TYPE_WORK)
                        .withValue(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredPostal.STREET, STREET)
                        .withValue(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredPostal.CITY, CITY) 
                        .withValue(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredPostal.REGION, REGION)
                        .withValue(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredPostal.POSTCODE, POSTCODE) 
                        .withValue(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredPostal.COUNTRY, POSTCODE)  
                        .build());
this.context.getContentResolver().applyBatch(ContactsContract.AUTHORITY, ops);

If a new contact has been created, but without address, and now you want to add an address to that contcat. In this case use the same query as above, but just change newUpdate to newInsert, since such row isn't exist yet.