Comments on: Android – Open Contacts Activity and Return Chosen Contact

By: Gay

Gay — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:41:23 +0000

eclipsed4utoo.com, hoq do you do it?

By: Daf

Daf — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:13:25 +0000

@Ryan

Thanks!

By: Ryan Alford

Ryan Alford — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:20:59 +0000

@Daf,

Here is a link to a good example of getting the phone number of a specific contact.

http://www.higherpass.com/Android/Tutorials/Working-With-Android-Contacts/

The phone numbers are stored in a different table than the other contact information. Therefore, you are going to have to make a separate query to get those.

By: Daf

Daf — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:29:26 +0000

Hi. How do I retrieve the phone number?

By: Ryan Alford

Ryan Alford — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:54:45 +0000

In the code above, it will open the “Contacts” application where a user can select a Contact. When the selection is made, the “Contacts” application will close and return an intent containing data about the Contact that was chosen. In my code above, I get the name of the Contact that was chosen and display it in a Toast.

This is all done from my application. So on the click of a button in my application, I will open the Contacts application, the user will select a Contact, and I will be able to retrieve the Contact that the user chose and use that information in my application.

By: nka

nka — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:48:35 +0000

Hi. What do you mean by “…have that Contact returned to my application.”?