Android adb command to get total contacts on device

Question

Can you please let me know if there is any adb command that can be used to find total number of contacts on device. -thanks in advance, Manju

Answer 1

this does not require root and sqlite:

adb shell content query --uri content://contacts/phones/  --projection display_name:number:notes  # google contacts?

adb shell content query --uri content://com.android.contacts/data --projection display_name:data1:data4:contact_id

Answer 2

There are a few adb commands that appear to work (as of on Android 10).

List the people in the contact list

adb shell content query --uri content://contacts/people/

Count people in contact list

Assuming you have a bash shell (Linux, OSX, or Windows Subsystem for Linux), you can pipe the output of those commands to wc -l to get the count.

adb shell content query --uri content://contacts/people/ | wc -l

Other interesting commands include:

List the phone numbers

adb shell content query --uri content://contacts/phones/

List the groups

adb shell content query --uri content://contacts/groups/

List group membership

adb shell content query --uri content://contacts/groupmembership/

List organizations

adb shell content query --uri content://contacts/organizations/