android-contacts

I haven't been able to find a straight answer on this. Can anyone tell me if it's possible to get the contact info of the phone's owner in an Android App? Daksh I have found a very easy way (got it from digging into the 4.1 Messaging app!) projection for cursor is final String[] SELF_PROJECTION = new String[] { Phone._ID,Phone.DISPLAY_NAME, }; Cursor is : Cursor cursor = activity.getContentResolver().query(Profile.CONTENT_URI, SELF_PROJECTION, null, null, null); now just do a simple cursor.moveToFirst(): and then fetch the contact id via cursor.getString(0) and the contact name via cursor

I am writing an Android app that has a data type that represents a person (specifically, the parent or guardian of a child). I'd like to be able to "import" the relevant data fields from the Contacts database in the Android device. (This should be optional; that is, it will not be a requirement that the parent/guardian is already in the Contacts database, nor will the Contacts database be updated if they add new parents/guardians.) So far, I have written code to start a new Intent to choose the specific Contact (using Intent.ACTION_PICK). I then get a URI that represents a specific Contact in

I am trying to get a contacts name and phone number after a user has picked a contact from the Contact Picker. I am attempting to make my application work for SDK v3 and up so I created an abstract class that would call only the API that I needed. I already have the abstract class working (it chooses the right API) and I also have the API for SDK v3,4 working. I am having problems getting the newer API that uses ContactsContract to work. I can get a contacts name, but the number it retrieves is always the number for the contact ID BEFORE it! Example: I have 2 contacts "John Doe" and "Jane Doe"

How to get the facebook id or url of a contacts that's been synced to the native contacts app via Facebook sync adapter? I went through different urls, but didn't see any info regarding facebook. I tried ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.CONTENT_URI ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI as URIs already in the code below: Uri uri = ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI; Cursor c = getContentResolver().query(uri, null, null, null, null); while (c.moveToNext()) { for (int i=0; i<c.getColumnCount(); i++) { Log.d