On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Juan Baez <[email protected]> wrote: > I am having issues having the user selecting a contact via the Intent > "ACTION_PICK" with the URI "People.CONTENT_URI" for Android platforms > 2.0 and above. > > I create a new intent with the action "Intent.ACTION_PICK" for the URI > "People.CONTENT_URI" -- from there I send a managedQuery to get a > cursor with the contact information I need, which is the contact's > name, and contact's phone number for the contact that the user > selected. > > This works well on platforms 1.1 through 1.6. However, on platforms > 2.0 through 2.2, this method no longer works for me. > > 2.2 - can't see the contact's phone number. > 2.1-update1 - same as above. > 2.0.1 - Can't see contact or phone number at all. When the intent is > invoked, the user is encountered with "You have no contacts" even > though he or she does. > 2.0 - Same as above. > > Should I be doing something different for platforms 2.0 and above? > I've searched around but to no avail.
You may wish to try a different Uri for 2.0+. Here is a sample project demonstrating support for both Uri values: http://github.com/commonsguy/cw-advandroid/tree/master/Contacts/Pick/ -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android Training in London: http://skillsmatter.com/go/os-mobile-server -- 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
