Android Security Exception while accessing contacts

Question

This is totally weird and I've searched through the forums.

In my main class I have a button onClick will launch the contacts application as shown below. When I click the button, he contacts list is shown but as soon as I tap on a contact a security exception is thrown.

public void selectContacts(View v) {
        Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK, ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI);
        startActivityForResult(intent, PICK_CONTACT);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
    switch (requestCode) {

        case PICK_CONTACT:
            if (resultCode == Activity.RESULT_OK) {
                Uri contactData = data.getData();
                Cursor c = managedQuery(contactData, null, null, null, null);
                while (c.moveToNext()) {
                    String id = c.getString(c.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts._ID));
                    String phoneNumber = getPhoneNumber(id);
                    listOfContacts.add(phoneNumber);

                }
            } else {
                System.out.println("User didn't pick a contact");
                finish();
            }
            break;
        }

        super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);
    }

I've checked the manifest and have tried all combinations of placing the uses-permission tag, within the application, activity etc. But nothing works. Here's my manifest.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    package="in.company.letsmeet"
    android:versionCode="1"
    android:versionName="1.0" >

    <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="7" />
    <uses-permision android:name="android.permission.SEND_SMS" />
    <uses-permision android:name="android.permission.RECEIVE_SMS" />
    <uses-permision android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
    <uses-permision android:name="android.permission.READ_CONTACTS" />

    <application
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
        android:label="@string/app_name" >
        <activity
            android:name=".LetsmeetActivity"
            android:label="@string/app_name" >
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>
    </application>
</manifest>

The security exception :

05-04 11:26:39.950: E/AndroidRuntime(3861): java.lang.RuntimeException: Failure delivering result ResultInfo{who=null, request=1, result=-1, data=Intent { dat=content://com.android.contacts/contacts/7 }} to activity {in.company.letsmeet/in.company.letsmeet.LetsmeetActivity}: java.lang.SecurityException: Permission Denial: reading com.android.providers.contacts.SemcContactsProvider2 uri content://com.android.contacts/contacts/7 from pid=3861, uid=10093 requires android.permission.READ_CONTACTS

Any help will be greatly appreciated. I'm trying this on Android 2.1 Sony experia S10 mini.

Answer 1

So guess what, I added the READ_CONTACTS permission in the Manifest GUI and it works. God I wasted an entire day on this. Hope others don't have to.