A new dev guide for the contacts provider is now available on developer.android.com
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/providers/contacts-provider.html. On Wednesday, June 6, 2012 2:34:42 AM UTC-7, Balint wrote: > > I query the phone's calllog into a ListView. So when the user long clicks > an item, a dialog comes up with options, including "View contact". To be > able to view the contact the intent needs the contact id. From the calllog > I get the contact id by the phone number. > My problem is that I not always get to see the right contact. I click on > Peter, and Peter's contact sheet comes up. I click on Sarah, and Jason's > contact sheet comes up. > > I must have been using this code the wrong way. Please help. > > ContentResolver contentResolver = getContentResolver(); > > Uri uri = > Uri.withAppendedPath(ContactsContract.PhoneLookup.CONTENT_FILTER_URI, > Uri.encode(phone)); > > Cursor cursor = contentResolver.query(uri, new String[] > {PhoneLookup.DISPLAY_NAME, PhoneLookup._ID}, null, null, null); > > if(cursor!=null) { > while(cursor.moveToNext()) > { > String contactName = > cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndexOrThrow(PhoneLookup.DISPLAY_NAME)); > contactid2 = > cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndexOrThrow(PhoneLookup._ID)); > } > cursor.close(); > } > > Intent intent_contacts = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, > Uri.parse("content://contacts/people/" + contactid2)); > startActivity(intent_contacts); > > Maybe what I need is not the PhoneLookup._ID, but some other ID. > > - on a HTC Desire HD (2.3.5) I get the proper contacts in 99% of the > cases. > - on a ZTE Blade (2.2) I get the proper contacts in 60% of the cases. > - on a Samsung Galaxy Ace (2.3.3) I get the proper contacts in 5% of the > cases. > > What the hell is going on??? > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
