Android get vCard data from Intent

Question

I use Intent.ACTION_SEND for receiving data in my app. How can I process sending of data type text/x-vcard?

When I use intent.getStringExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT), it's throws an exception.

Answer 1

This worked for me:

Uri uri = (Uri) intent.getExtras().get(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM);

uri.toString() gave me this:

content://com.android.contacts/contacts/as_multi_vcard/2876r7-2A962A902A9045494F35.1957ifcf79ef7e82a0b99%3A2876r8-315551534945354F312D4F35.1957ieb4f1a6b0fcb82b9%3A2876r9-57493D3135452D3D43.1957ief585d48b64784c0%3A2876r10-4F35373D4343474959.1957if0a70009608fae23%3A2876r11-313B3531412F2D432D473135.1957i39c8fd1b6ef69e84%3A1957i51f47cecc7822f19.4035i611323cd8d55aa13%3A4035i8.4035i74aa09b30a019fa1%3A4035i2c0b359c8a47878e%3A4035i6d3c40138feef64b%3A4035i7d583f5488e47e41%3A4035ia6.4035i5%3A4035i6029e050898a86d3%3A4035i77caf53c89b4da48%3A4035i2a11745a8f3d5667%3A4035i9%3A4035i59ab32fd0fa955a9%3A4035i7391f1908a38ed1b%3A4035i6769848b08a214b0%3A4035i5a7c03c88bd1ba9e%3A4035i126427da8dfc0763%3A4035i35003ea5093abeb0%3A4035i1906758a8e16ca3a%3A4035i59a7953d883a78bf%3A4035i64249c098820452a%3A4035i48145af48ed78ebc%3A4035i2093d7568be9dff6%3A4035i469c62120db59d35.4035i388017020fbfb07e%3A4035i47e19c048aa116d7%3A239i3%3A239i2%3A239i249%3A239i248%3A239i1,

which is not terribly useful in that form, but there seem to be several posts on stack about getting a usable path from a URI.

To get the text from the vcard, the following seems to be working for me:

ContentResolver cr = getContentResolver();
InputStream stream = null;
try {
    stream = cr.openInputStream(uri);
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
    // TODO Auto-generated catch block
    e.printStackTrace();
}

StringBuffer fileContent = new StringBuffer("");
int ch;
try {
    while( (ch = stream.read()) != -1)
      fileContent.append((char)ch);
} catch (IOException e) {
    // TODO Auto-generated catch block
    e.printStackTrace();
}
String data = new String(fileContent);
Log.i("TAG", "data: " + data);

The string will have carriage returns, so to see all of the text in the logcat, make sure to search for the tag (in the above code it's "TAG"), so you see all the lines (see my screenshot below).