android-contacts

I am populating contact list details to list view successfully. My code: String order = ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.DISPLAY_NAME + " ASC"; Cursor curLog = getContentResolver().query(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI, null,null,null,order); How can I avoid the duplicate data In List view as the contact details is repeating if its joined contact i.e. joined with both phone and Google? . The screen is like I want to select programmatically only 1 name not the both? Any Idea how I can select? Ranjit I have used a rough way to avoid this problem which helped me so much

i'm wondering if there's a clean way to import a vcard as an android contact. i have a vcard parser, but mapping each possible vcard field and field type is going to be a painful, bug-prone exercise. is there a better way? an android contact looks suspiciously like a vcard, so i suspect they use vcards internally. there's no public API for this however. an android contact looks suspiciously like a vcard, so i suspect they use vcards internally. I think it's a lot more complicated than using 'vCards internally' especially as vCard is effectively just a text file format making it inefficient to

Does anybody know how to get a list of contacts belonging to a 1 specific group in Android? I need something like this: Select * from contacts where group_id = "1234" I am able to get a list of all contacts OR all groups by using something like this: Cursor groupCursor = cr.query(ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI, null, null, null, null); final ArrayList<String> contacts = new ArrayList<String>(); while(groupCursor.moveToNext()) { String name = groupCursor.getString(groupCursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Constacts.DisplayName )); contacts.add(name); } this is what i use and it works

I am getting this error when I am trying to read contacts from phone and I included READ_CONTACTS permission in Manifest file. And the strange thing is that it was working fine in Eclipse but when I converted my project to Gradle and run it in Android Studio I'm getting this error. logcat says: Permission Denial: opening provider com.android.providers.contacts.ContactsProvider2 from ProcessRecord{302f069 29282:com.GP/u0a322} (pid=29282, uid=10322) requires android.permission.READ_CONTACTS or android.permission.WRITE_CONTACTS here is the Manifest code: <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="14"