Hi all,
This is my first post to this group (any group), but I wanted to share
my experience with the new Contacts API so far. I had a little
application which accessed a contact's notes via
Contacts.People.CONTENT_URI, accessing the NOTES field with
cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex(People.Notes)). Simple enough.
Then, along comes the new API with it's ContactsContract and
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.xxx. Oh my gosh! It took me forever
to figure out how to find the contents of a note. Maybe I'm just
dense! :) As it turns out, a note (along with many other data items)
is stored in the 'data' directory of the contact available through
ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI. The note's mime-type is specified
as ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Note.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE, and the
column containing the note is
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Note.NOTE. So, here's how I
constructed my new getNote(long contactId) method:
private String getNote(long contactId) {
Log.d(LOGGING_TAG, "getNote for contactId: " + contactId);
String rv = null;
String[] projection = new String[]
{ ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Note.NOTE };
String whereClause = ContactsContract.Data.RAW_CONTACT_ID + " = ? AND
" + ContactsContract.Data.MIMETYPE + " = ?";
String[] whereParams = new String[]{Long.toString(contactId),
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Note.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE};
Cursor c = getContentResolver().query
(ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI, projection, whereClause,
whereParams, null);
if (c.moveToFirst()) {
rv = c.getString(0);
}
c.close();
Log.d(LOGGING_TAG, "getNote returning " + rv);
return rv;
}
There are other, easier means for accessing some of the other 'data'
items (for example, ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone has it's
own CONTENT_URI), but this was the only way I could find to access a
note. I hope it's helpful to someone else.
Peace,
Jef
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