It's deprecated, not removed. The old API is still functional, but with restrictions:
1. If your app was using something non-public, that part is likely to break. We tested a bunch of apps on the market against the legacy API - most worked, but some did not. Those were the cases when the app was using some knowledge of the undocumented underlying database structure. 2. Legacy API will only give you access to the "primary" account, i.e. the first Google account you add to the phone. - Dmitri On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 11:40 AM, nEx.Software <[email protected] > wrote: > > Hold up... I'm confused. Are you saying that Contacts portion of the > SDK is deprecated? Whatever happened to "stick to the SDK because > those are stable apis that won't break in future versions"? Very > disappointing... > > On Oct 30, 11:12 am, Jeff Sharkey <[email protected]> wrote: > > Could you post the exact Uri you're passing to query()? As the > > javadoc describes, you need to append a filter string to the > > CONTENT_FILTER_URI so it knows what to filter on. > > > > Uri lookupUri = Uri.withAppendedPath(PhoneLookup.CONTENT_URI, > phoneNumber); > > > > Also, you might be able to skip your second step, since you can > > directly ask for the PhoneLookup.DISPLAY_NAME column in the > > projection. > > > > j > > > > On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 8:05 AM, agirardello > > > > > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Dear all, > > > > > I'm trying to adapt my application (Personalytics) for the brand new > > > Android 2.0, however I'm facing an issue while accessing contacts' > > > phone numbers... > > > > > What I need to do is to retrieve the name associated to a stored > > > contact based on his/her phone number. At present I'm doing this in > > > two steps: > > > 1) from a phone number I get the corresponding ID of the stored > > > contact (if present) > > > 2) I retrieve the contact's name based on that ID > > > > > I managed to use the correct CONTENT_URI for reading contacts by using > > > reflection to be fully compatible with Android 2.0 > > > (ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI) and the previous versions > > > (People.CONTENT_URI). > > > > > Now I'm trying to do the same for Phones.CONTENT_URI (Android <= 1.6) > > > and ContactsContract.PhoneLookup.CONTENT_FILTER_URI (Android = 2.0) > > > which is needed by step 2) mentioned above. But as soon as I try to > > > get a contentResolver by using > > > ContactsContract.PhoneLookup.CONTENT_FILTER_URI I get the following > > > exception: > > > > > java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unknown URL > content://com.android.contacts/phone_lookup > > > > > This looks really strange to me, since it should be correct (it is > > > part of the official API)! Moreover, I tried to look at the "API > > > Demos" project, in particular to the classes: > > > > > com.example.android.apis.view.List2 > > > com.example.android.apis.view.List3 > > > > > which are still using the deprecated People.CONTENT_URI and > > > Phones.CONTENT_URI and thus no data (i.e. contacts) is loaded (of > > > course I have sample contacts in the emulator). > > > > > - Do you have any suggestion to solve this problem? > > > - Or is there another approach I can use to get the name of a contact > > > based on one of his/her numbers? (This must work on all versions of > > > Android) > > > > > Thank you!!!!!!!! ;-) > > > > > Andrea > > > > -- > > Jeff Sharkey > > [email protected] > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ > 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
