Possible to get "Owner" contact info in Android?

Question

I haven't been able to find a straight answer on this. Can anyone tell me if it's possible to get the contact info of the phone's owner in an Android App?

Answer 1

I have found a very easy way (got it from digging into the 4.1 Messaging app!)

projection for cursor is

final String[] SELF_PROJECTION = new String[] { Phone._ID,Phone.DISPLAY_NAME, };

Cursor is :

Cursor cursor = activity.getContentResolver().query(Profile.CONTENT_URI, SELF_PROJECTION, null, null, null);

now just do a simple

cursor.moveToFirst():

and then fetch the contact id via

cursor.getString(0)

and the contact name via

cursor.getString(1)

and..... you're done!

Answer 2

So the answer is technically no. The only way I've found so far to get owner's data is through the account manager. Here's an example of how to use it:

final AccountManager manager = AccountManager.get(this);
final Account[] accounts = manager.getAccountsByType("com.google");
final int size = accounts.length;
String[] names = new String[size];
for (int i = 0; i < size; i++) {
  names[i] = accounts[i].name;
}

For more info see: http://code.google.com/p/google-api-java-client/wiki/AndroidAccountManager