Retrieve Contact Phone Number From URI in Android

Question

I am trying to get the contact\'s phone number after I have retrieved their ID number from the built-in activity. However, whenever I query the database using the cursor in

Answer 1

I found the answer.

The reason I was not getting any rows from the cursor was because I was using the line

ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTACT_ID

"The id of the row in the Contacts table that this data belongs to."

Since I was getting the URI from contacts table anyways -- this was not needed and the following should have been substituted. The ID was the one corresponding to the contact in the phone table not the raw contact.

ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone._ID

Exchanging the lines returned the correct results in the query. Everything seems to be working well at the moment.

Answer 2

This should work, (maybe try losing the type)

Phone numbers are stored in their own table and need to be queried separately. To query the phone number table use the URI stored in the SDK variable ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI. Use a WHERE conditional to get the phone numbers for the specified contact.

        if (Integer.parseInt(cur.getString(
               cur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts.HAS_PHONE_NUMBER))) > 0) {
            Cursor pCur = cr.query(
        ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI, 
        null, 
        ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTACT_ID +" = ?", 
        new String[]{id}, null);
        while (pCur.moveToNext()) {
        // Do something with phones
        } 
        pCur.close();
    }

Perform a second query against the Android contacts SQLite database. The phone numbers are queried against the URI stored in ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI. The contact ID is stored in the phone table as ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTACT_ID and the WHERE clause is used to limit the data returned.