A couple of years ago i tried writing something similar... found out that
while it is working fine on most devices, on some devices it failed
miserably, especially if the user filtered the contacts (used the search
bar)... that caused the returned values to be blank on some devices.
After a while i caved and just created my own picker. took less time than
to resolve the issues with the native picker... you should consider that as
well :)
On Sunday, November 17, 2013 3:06:07 PM UTC+2, mbanzon wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to get a contact with a phone number and so far I haven't
> found a reliable way to do this. I launch the standard activity for picking
> a contact using this snippet:
>
> Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK,
> ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI);
> startActivityForResult(intent, REQUEST_CONTACT_NUMBER);
>
> In my onActivityResult method I do this (from examples from SO etc.):
>
> if (REQUEST_CONTACT_NUMBER == requestCode) {
> if (resultCode == Activity.RESULT_OK) {
> Uri contactData = data.getData();
> Cursor c = getContentResolver().query(contactData, null, null, null, null);
> if (c.moveToFirst()) {
> String id =
> c.getString(c.getColumnIndexOrThrow(ContactsContract.Contacts._ID));
> String hasPhone =
> c.getString(c.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts.HAS_PHONE_NUMBER));
>
> if (hasPhone.equalsIgnoreCase("1")) {
> Cursor phones = getContentResolver().query(
> ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI, null,
> ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTACT_ID + " = " + id,
> null, null);
> if (phones.moveToFirst()) {
> String number =
> phones.getString(phones.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER));
> this.numberEditText.setText(number);
> return;
> }
> }
> }
> }
> Toast.makeText(this, "No number", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
> }
>
> The activity that launches show a lot more contacts than expected - every
> person is shown once per phone number or email eg. - many of the contacts
> is shown three to five times - and only one of these will result in an
> actual phone number being returned. Some contacts even return the email
> address!
>
> If I launch the activity using this:
>
> Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK,
> ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI);
> intent.setType(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_TYPE);
> startActivityForResult(intent, REQUEST_CONTACT_NUMBER);
>
> It seems that every contact is only shown once - and if chosen the contact
> picker prompts to select the correct part (phone, email, etc.) - but no
> matter what I select nothings actually gets returned - it always "toasts"
> the text "No number".
>
> I just need a reliable and simple (to the user) way to pick a contact and
> get the phone number into the app - any help or reference for more
> information would be much appreciated ;-)
>
> --
> Michael Banzon
> http://michaelbanzon.com/
>
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