How to get Skype info from the Android contact list?

Question

Newbie to using the Contacts Contract Content Provider.

I'm trying to make a skype call from within my application, and I can't figure out how to get the skype info from the android contacts. I am running a query through a ContentResolver to get all of the data for the contacts, but I don't know how to find the skype name within the data.

Answer 1

This is working for me:

    public String getSkypeID(Context mContext, String contactID) {
    Log.i("getContactNumber");

    String returnID = "noMatch";

    ContentResolver cr = mContext.getContentResolver();
    Cursor skype = cr.query(ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI, null, ContactsContract.Data.CONTACT_ID
            + " = " + contactID, null, null);

    while (skype.moveToNext()) {

        int type = skype
                .getInt(skype
                        .getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Im.PROTOCOL));
        String imName = skype.getString(skype
                .getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Im.DATA));

        switch (type) {
        case ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Im.PROTOCOL_SKYPE:
            Log.d("contactID: " + contactID + " type: " + type
                    + " imName: " + imName);

            returnID = imName;

            break;

        default:
            Log.v("Other numbers: " + imName);
            break;
        }

    }

    return returnID;
}

Pass in the contactID for usage:

    String skypeID = getSkypeID(mContext, contactID);

    if(!skypeID.matches("noMatch") {
    //skypeID found

    // Skype intent here

    }

Hope that helps.