You could check that the contact exists in the provider, if so, view it (as you've done with the view intent); if not, add it using a content resolver update, then view it.
On Jan 11, 12:48 pm, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I have a AutoCompleteTextView to quickly search/select a Contact. > Works so far. Now i want to implement 2 features to quickly edit/ > insert a new contact on a long click (i.e. if there was already a > contact selected, it should edit it otherwise it should edit it). > > Viewing works perfectly with > intent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_VIEW); > intent.setData(uri); > > where Uri is a Contacts.People.CONTENT_URI with attached contact ID > segment. > > But the Android Contacts app seems not to support the > Intent.ACTION_INSERT (or i'm doing sth wrong). However, > Intent.ACTION_INSERT_OR_EDIT works, but it's not exactly what i want, > as this shows all contacts available in addition to a "Create Contact" > Item which creates it. > > Is there a way to directly get to the "insert" part of the Contacts > app? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
