They added support for multiple accounts (woot). However as contacts are by account something had to give ...
-- RichardC On Oct 30, 6:40 pm, "nEx.Software" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hold up... I'm confused. Are you saying that Contacts portion of the > SDK is deprecated? Whatever happened to "stick to the SDK because > those are stable apis that won't break in future versions"? Very > disappointing... > > On Oct 30, 11:12 am, Jeff Sharkey <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Could you post the exact Uri you're passing to query()? As the > > javadoc describes, you need to append a filter string to the > > CONTENT_FILTER_URI so it knows what to filter on. > > > Uri lookupUri = Uri.withAppendedPath(PhoneLookup.CONTENT_URI, phoneNumber); > > > Also, you might be able to skip your second step, since you can > > directly ask for the PhoneLookup.DISPLAY_NAME column in the > > projection. > > > j > > > On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 8:05 AM, agirardello > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Dear all, > > > > I'm trying to adapt my application (Personalytics) for the brand new > > > Android 2.0, however I'm facing an issue while accessing contacts' > > > phone numbers... > > > > What I need to do is to retrieve the name associated to a stored > > > contact based on his/her phone number. At present I'm doing this in > > > two steps: > > > 1) from a phone number I get the corresponding ID of the stored > > > contact (if present) > > > 2) I retrieve the contact's name based on that ID > > > > I managed to use the correct CONTENT_URI for reading contacts by using > > > reflection to be fully compatible with Android 2.0 > > > (ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI) and the previous versions > > > (People.CONTENT_URI). > > > > Now I'm trying to do the same for Phones.CONTENT_URI (Android <= 1.6) > > > and ContactsContract.PhoneLookup.CONTENT_FILTER_URI (Android = 2.0) > > > which is needed by step 2) mentioned above. But as soon as I try to > > > get a contentResolver by using > > > ContactsContract.PhoneLookup.CONTENT_FILTER_URI I get the following > > > exception: > > > > java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unknown URL > > > content://com.android.contacts/phone_lookup > > > > This looks really strange to me, since it should be correct (it is > > > part of the official API)! Moreover, I tried to look at the "API > > > Demos" project, in particular to the classes: > > > > com.example.android.apis.view.List2 > > > com.example.android.apis.view.List3 > > > > which are still using the deprecated People.CONTENT_URI and > > > Phones.CONTENT_URI and thus no data (i.e. contacts) is loaded (of > > > course I have sample contacts in the emulator). > > > > - Do you have any suggestion to solve this problem? > > > - Or is there another approach I can use to get the name of a contact > > > based on one of his/her numbers? (This must work on all versions of > > > Android) > > > > Thank you!!!!!!!! ;-) > > > > Andrea > > > -- > > Jeff Sharkey > > [email protected] > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" 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-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
