Contact IDs are volatile, they often change as a result of aggregation. You need to store the lookup key rather than the id of a contact if you want a more stable reference.
Cheers, Dmitri On Jan 31, 2010 9:42 AM, "andrew android" <[email protected]> wrote: I am having a problem viewing a contact in my app when I know the ID (because we just queried and stored it). I see some comments that a "LOOKUP_URI" is required but I don't know how to use it and no matter what, I get "The contact does not exist" even though I know with 100% certainty that it does. Can someone explain based on the following code snippet: String name = ContactNameList.get(position); String strID = ContactIDList.get(position); Uri contactUri = ContactsContract.Contacts.getLookupUri(Long.parseLong (strID), "name='"+name + "'"); Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW,contactUri); startActivity(intent); I am finding that ID = 676 for example and that is getting parsed correctly and also that name='Joe Smith' does not throw an error but my activity does not open the contact - I only get the message "The contact does not exist" in a toast. Please help! Thanks very much! -- 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]<android-developers%[email protected]> For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- 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
