Android getting contacts photo from data.Email query

Question

I am making a autocomplete Field that queries contacts by Display name and Email. When someone clicks on the desired contact after the filtering that contact is added to a l

Answer 1

When you want to access the photo of a contact, you need to specify the contact photo URI, for example using this method:

public Uri getContactPhotoUri(long contactId) {
    Uri photoUri = ContentUris.withAppendedId(ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI, contactId);
    photoUri = Uri.withAppendedPath(photoUri, ContactsContract.Contacts.Photo.CONTENT_DIRECTORY);
    return photoUri;
}

But for contactId you must use:

String id = ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Photo.CONTACT_ID;
long contactId = Long.parseLong(id);

Please note that a common error is to use ContactsContract.Contacts._ID instead ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Photo.CONTACT_ID

I hope that can help you.