Android Contact List

Question

Can anyone shed a light on how to get contact list from android?.

I just want to get the same list as in the dialer app. But im getting a lots of contacts that are not on the dialer list with the code below.

ContentResolver cr = getContentResolver();
Cursor cursor = cr.query(Contacts.People.CONTENT_URI, null, null, null, Contacts.ContactMethods.DEFAULT_SORT_ORDER);
startManagingCursor(cursor);

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Try this snippet:

import android.app.ListActivity;
import android.database.Cursor;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.provider.ContactsContract;
import android.provider.ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone;
import android.widget.SimpleCursorAdapter;

public class ContactList extends ListActivity {
    /** Called when the activity is first created. */
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);


        Cursor cursor = getContentResolver().query(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI, new String[] {Phone._ID, Phone.DISPLAY_NAME, Phone.NUMBER}, null, null, null);

        startManagingCursor(cursor);

        String[] from = new String[] { Phone.DISPLAY_NAME, Phone.NUMBER};

        int[] to = new int[] { R.id.name_entry, R.id.number_entry};

        SimpleCursorAdapter adapter = new SimpleCursorAdapter(this, R.layout.list_entry, cursor, from, to);
        this.setListAdapter(adapter);
    }
}

XML file is:

list_entry.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:padding="6dip">
        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/name_entry"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="0dip"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:gravity="center_vertical"
        android:textSize="18dip"/>
        <TextView
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="0dip"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:id="@+id/number_entry"
            android:singleLine="true"
            android:ellipsize="marquee"
        android:textSize="18dip"/>
    </LinearLayout>

Answer 2

What you have seems fine. Could you elaborate on "getting a lots of contacts that are not on the dialer list"? Is it that Android is making up people? Or is it that you are seeing people with email addresses but no phone numbers (who therefore might not show up in the Dialer)?

Note that Contacts.People is for Android 1.6 and below. That provider is deprecated starting with Android 2.0, replaced by the ContactsContract set of providers.