For contact information I have used this: http://www.higherpass.com/Android/Tutorials/Working-With-Android-Contacts/
It works well for me and seems to be fairly complete and detailed. Good luck. On Sep 1, 2:11 pm, Dritan <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm writing an app on to make use of the owner's data (first, last, > email(s), phone(s)) and one or more contacts the owner can choose. The > application will find common patterns and whatnot. > > I have given my app READ_CONTACTS, WRITE_CONTACTS, READ_OWNER_DATA, > WRITE_OWNER_DATA permissions in my AndroidManifest.xml > > Initially I used the People class which was deprecated, then I > switched to ContactsContract.Contacts... > to try pull explicitly the first (given), middle, and last (family) > names, then phone numbers, emails, etc... but I cannot seem to be able > to fetch these columns via: > > Cursor c1 = > getContentResolver().query(ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI, null, > ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredName.CONTACT_ID +" = ?", > new String[]{id}, null); > > Or even this > > Cursor cc = > getContentResolver().query(ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI, > null, null,null, null); > if (cc.moveToFirst()){ > String [] names = cc.getColumnNames(); > for (int j=0; j<names.length; j++){ > Log.d("Contacts", "COL NAME: > "+names[j]); > Log.d("Contacts", "========>COL VALUE: > " +cc.getString(cc.getColumnIndexOrThrow(names[j]))+"\n\n"); > } > > } > > to show all column names but I'm not getting any relevant information. > I can get the phone number (data 0 or data 1), but not first, middle, > and last. I need to access as much of the user's data for the > algorithm to work as it compares it with other people to find trends > and patterns. The more complete the data the better. > > Here's another alternative way I tried with the first cursor c1: > > String lookup = > c1.getString(c.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts.LOOKUP_KEY)); > Cursor cc = > getContentResolver().query( > Uri.withAppendedPath(ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_LOOKUP_URI, > lookup), null, null, null, null); > > and still I cannot get the owner's or a contact's data that I want. > > Does anyone have any clue as to why I can't get the contact fields I > need... or how I can get them? > > I really appreciate any insights. > Thanks! -- 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
