Ok....I have managed to do it.
For the benefit of others who may be looking for the same thing, i am
pasting the code below. In this code, i launch the contacts application, the
user picks a contact and i display the username of the picked contact:
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.database.Cursor;
import android.net.Uri;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.provider.ContactsContract;
public final class ContactManager extends Activity
{
private final int PICK_CONTACT =1;
/**
* Called when the activity is first created. Responsible for
initializing the UI.
*/
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.contacts_manager);
Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK,
ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI);
startActivityForResult(i, PICK_CONTACT);
}
private Cursor getContact(Uri uri) {
// Run query
Cursor c = managedQuery(uri, null, null, null, null);
return c;
}
@Override
protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent
data)
{
super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);
Cursor c = getContact(data.getData());
if (c.moveToFirst())
{
String name =
c.getString(c.getColumnIndexOrThrow(ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME));
System.out.println(name);
}
}
}
Best Regards
Indodroid
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Android Development <[email protected]>wrote:
> Ok, i am able to start the Contacts application...and I pick a contact from
> there. Now this operation succeeds too (-1 Result Code).
>
> I use the following code:
>
> Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK,
> ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI);
> startActivityForResult(i, PICK_CONTACT);
>
> I get a callback in the onActivityResult method which provides me with the
> data as an Intent as shown below:
>
> @Override
> protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent
> data)
> {
> super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);
>
> if(resultCode==RESULT_OK)
> System.out.println("a contact was picked..");
> Uri uri = data.getData();
>
> System.out.println(uri);
>
> }
> I want to access the details of the contact that was picked (Display name,
> phone numbers etc) .
>
> I get a URI from the data received from the Contacts application. What does
> this URI point to ? Will i need to execute a DB query to get the actual user
> data for the contact ?
>
> Kindly guide..
>
> Help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Indodroid.
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Android Development
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I wish to re-use the Contacts application in a way to enable the user to
>> pick a contact and return it to the parent activity (my application's
>> activity).
>>
>> For achieving this, I want to inquire about the kind of Intent that will
>> be needed to launch the contacts application.
>>
>> Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT, ???);
>> startActivityForResult(.....);
>>
>> What should be the second argument here ?
>>
>> In the deprecated Contacts API, I could use the following snippet, but not
>> sure about ContactsContract:
>>
>> Intent i= new Intent(Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT,People.CONTENT_URI);
>> startActivityForResult(i, reqCode);
>>
>
>
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