I'm trying to do the same thing. Did you manage to fix this?
Cheers, Jodi On Aug 13, 4:06 pm, "Jonas Petersson" <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear experts, > > I've attempted to implement what Jeff describes below on 1.1 as well as > 1.5 (both real device and emulated), but as far as I can tell it never > succeeds. I have the permission to read contact data (otherwise I get an > exception). Maybe I've made some very basic mistake. > > Has anyone got a code snippet that succeeds with this? > > I know that for instance Nav4All successfully sends my google mail > address to the server (via the web browser so it is not too hard to > spot) each time I upgrade, so obviously there is SOME way of > extracting this. > > Any advice would be appreciated. > > Here is my code snippet that never succeeds: > > Uri contactUri = > Uri.withAppendedPath(Contacts.People.CONTENT_URI, "owner"); > ContentResolver resolver = getContentResolver(); > > Cursor c = resolver.query(contactUri, null, null, null, null); > if (!c.moveToFirst()) { // This always happens > c.close(); > return; > } > // Extract the data - never gets here > > I've also tried only extracting the id, but with the same result. I've > tried to decipher > packages/providers/ContactsProvider/src/com/android/providers/contacts/ContactsProvider.java > and as far as I can tell it SHOULD end up in queryOwner(), pick up the > PREF_OWNER_ID and query for that id, but I sure seem to fail every time. > > It is hardly a critical function, but it is annoying that I can't get it > to work... > > Best / Jonas > > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 23:01, Jeff Sharkey<[email protected]> wrote: > > > Although not officially supported, you might try getting theowner's > > contact details: > > > > Uri.withAppendedPath(Contacts.People.CONTENT_URI, "owner"); > > > > And you'll need to ask for the "android.permission.READ_OWNER_DATA" > > permission to readownerdata. Like I said, it's not part of the > > published Contacts API, and it might disappear in a future release. > > > > You probably want to avoid asking for a sensitive permission like > > this, especially when it's just being used for pre-filling a form. > > Users will see that you're requesting their personal contact > >informationwhen installing your app, and they will probably cancel > > the installation. > > > > j > > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Anna PS > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > - Hide quoted text - > >> I'd like to retrieve the user's own email address, as configured in > >> their Gmail application (purpose: just so I can pre-fill a form field > >> for 'Your email'). > >> > >> Is this possible in Android, maybe through one of the > >> ContentProviders, or would it breach privacy in some way? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
