Programmatically Inserting New Android Contacts into Phone

Question

I am writing an app that lets the user remove contacts from their Android device and store them in a separate database. They should also be able to restore the contacts to their phone, but I am having trouble with this part. I retrieve the contact information from my database and create a contact object that contains the contact ID, lookup key, structured name, organization, an array list of phone objects (which contain the phone number and type), etc. It's all there. My function to restore that information to the phone looks like this:

public void addContact(Contact contact)
{
    ContentValues values = new ContentValues();
    values.put("contact_id", contact.getContactId());
    values.put("lookup", contact.getLookupKey());
    values.put("mimetype", StructuredName.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE);
    values.put("data1", contact.getStructuredName().getDisplayName());
    values.put("data2", contact.getStructuredName().getGivenName());
    values.put("data3", contact.getStructuredName().getFamilyName());
    values.put("data4", contact.getStructuredName().getPrefix());
    values.put("data5", contact.getStructuredName().getMiddleName());
    values.put("data6", contact.getStructuredName().getSuffix());
    context.getContentResolver().insert(Data.CONTENT_URI, values);
}

And, well, that's where the app crashes. I used this method to insert data into my database without any problems, and I can verify that it is being stored correctly. So my guess is that there is a better way than this to insert contacts into the device, but I have no idea what that would be. Could someone give me an example of programmatically creating and inserting a contact into the user's device? I'd be satisfied even if I could see a contact with just a display name being created.

In case it matters, I also tried putting this code above the insertion of the structured name, but to no avail:

values.put("_id", contact.getContactId());
values.put("lookup", contact.getLookupKey());
values.put("display_name", contact.getStructuredName().getDisplayName());
context.getContentResolver().insert(Contacts.CONTENT_URI, values);
values.clear();

Edit: Here is my logcat error log for when the app crashes:

05-07 20:31:53.941: E/Trace(819): error opening trace file: No such file or directory (2)
05-07 20:34:39.035: D/AndroidRuntime(853): Shutting down VM
05-07 20:34:39.048: W/dalvikvm(853): threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x40a71930)
05-07 20:34:39.197: E/AndroidRuntime(853): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
05-07 20:34:39.197: E/AndroidRuntime(853): java.lang.NullPointerException
05-07 20:34:39.197: E/AndroidRuntime(853):  at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1431)
05-07 20:34:39.197: E/AndroidRuntime(853):  at android.database.DatabaseUtils.readExceptionFromParcel(DatabaseUtils.java:185)
05-07 20:34:39.197: E/AndroidRuntime(853):  at android.database.DatabaseUtils.readExceptionFromParcel(DatabaseUtils.java:137)
05-07 20:34:39.197: E/AndroidRuntime(853):  at android.content.ContentProviderProxy.insert(ContentProviderNative.java:420)
05-07 20:34:39.197: E/AndroidRuntime(853):  at android.content.ContentResolver.insert(ContentResolver.java:866)
05-07 20:34:39.197: E/AndroidRuntime(853):  at com.protextyou.contacts.ContactHandler.addContact(ContactHandler.java:58)
05-07 20:34:39.197: E/AndroidRuntime(853):  at com.protextyou.StartPage$12.onClick(StartPage.java:542)
05-07 20:34:39.197: E/AndroidRuntime(853):  at com.android.internal.app.AlertController$ButtonHandler.handleMessage(AlertController.java:166)
05-07 20:34:39.197: E/AndroidRuntime(853):  at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
05-07 20:34:39.197: E/AndroidRuntime(853):  at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
05-07 20:34:39.197: E/AndroidRuntime(853):  at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5041)
05-07 20:34:39.197: E/AndroidRuntime(853):  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
05-07 20:34:39.197: E/AndroidRuntime(853):  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
05-07 20:34:39.197: E/AndroidRuntime(853):  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:793)
05-07 20:34:39.197: E/AndroidRuntime(853):  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:560)
05-07 20:34:39.197: E/AndroidRuntime(853):  at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

Answer 1

Reference

ContentValues values = new ContentValues();
            values.put(Data.RAW_CONTACT_ID, 001);
            values.put(Data.MIMETYPE, Phone.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE);
            values.put(Phone.NUMBER, "1-800-GOOG-411");
            values.put(Phone.TYPE, Phone.TYPE_CUSTOM);
            values.put(Phone.LABEL, "Nirav");
            Uri dataUri = getContentResolver().insert(android.provider.ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI, values);

Use the above code. http://developer.android.com/reference/android/provider/ContactsContract.Data.html

Answer 2

ArrayList<ContentProviderOperation> ops =
      new ArrayList<ContentProviderOperation>();
ops.add(ContentProviderOperation.newInsert(Data.CONTENT_URI)
      .withValue(Data.RAW_CONTACT_ID, rawContactId)
      .withValue(Data.MIMETYPE, Phone.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE)
      .withValue(Phone.NUMBER, "1-800-GOOG-411")
      .withValue(Phone.TYPE, Phone.TYPE_CUSTOM)
      .withValue(Phone.LABEL, "free directory assistance")
      .build()); 
getContentResolver().applyBatch(ContactsContract.AUTHORITY, ops);