Android Contact Picker

We can pick the contacts in android from our phone contact list, to do this we need to follow few steps as follows.

make a new project with the name ContactPicker and with the name of main activity as

ContentPickerTester.java followed by the given code


package jitesh.example.contactpicker;

import jitesh.example.contactpicker.R;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.database.Cursor;
import android.net.Uri;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.provider.Contacts.People;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class ContentPickerTester extends Activity {

  public static final int PICK_CONTACT = 1;

  @Override
  public void onCreate(Bundle icicle) {
    super.onCreate(icicle);
    setContentView(R.layout.contentpickertester);

    Button button = (Button)findViewById(R.id.pick_contact_button);
   
    button.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
     public void onClick(View _view) {
        Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK,
                                   Uri.parse("content://contacts/"));
        startActivityForResult(intent, PICK_CONTACT);
      }
    });
  }
 
  @Override
  public void onActivityResult(int reqCode, int resCode, Intent data) {
    super.onActivityResult(reqCode, resCode, data);
       
    switch(reqCode) {
      case (PICK_CONTACT) : {
        if (resCode == Activity.RESULT_OK) {
          Uri contactData = data.getData();
          Cursor c = managedQuery(contactData, null, null, null, null);
          c.moveToFirst();
          String name = c.getString(c.getColumnIndexOrThrow(People.NAME));
          TextView tv = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.selected_contact_textview);
          tv.setText(name);
        }
        break;
      }
    }
  }
}

where contentpickertester.xml should have following layout


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
  android:orientation="vertical"
  android:layout_width="fill_parent"
  android:layout_height="fill_parent"
  >
  <TextView
    android:id="@+id/selected_contact_textview"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
  />
  <Button
    android:id="@+id/pick_contact_button"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="Pick Contact"
  />
</LinearLayout>

make an another ContactPicker.java with the given code


package jitesh.example.contactpicker;

import jitesh.example.contactpicker.R;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.database.Cursor;
import android.net.Uri;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.provider.Contacts.People;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.AdapterView;
import android.widget.ListView;
import android.widget.SimpleCursorAdapter;
import android.widget.AdapterView.OnItemClickListener;

public class ContactPicker extends Activity {
  @Override
  public void onCreate(Bundle icicle) {
    super.onCreate(icicle);
    setContentView(R.layout.main);
   
    Intent intent = getIntent();
    String dataPath = intent.getData().toString();
   
    final Uri data = Uri.parse(dataPath + "people/");
    final Cursor c = managedQuery(data, null, null, null, null);
       
    String[] from = new String[] {People.NAME};
    int[]  to = new int[] { R.id.itemTextView };
       
    SimpleCursorAdapter adapter = new SimpleCursorAdapter(this,
                                                          R.layout.listitemlayout,
                                                          c,
                                                          from,
                                                          to);
    ListView lv = (ListView)findViewById(R.id.contactListView);
    lv.setAdapter(adapter);
    lv.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {
      public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int pos, long id) {
        // Move the cursor to the selected item
        c.moveToPosition(pos);
        // Extract the row id.
        int rowId = c.getInt(c.getColumnIndexOrThrow("_id"));
        // Construct the result URI.
        Uri outURI = Uri.parse(data.toString() + rowId);
        Intent outData = new Intent();
        outData.setData(outURI);
        setResult(Activity.RESULT_OK, outData);
        finish();
      }
    });
  }
}

now make a layout file with name main.xml with following code


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
  android:orientation="vertical"
  android:layout_width="fill_parent"
  android:layout_height="fill_parent"
  >
  <ListView android:id="@+id/contactListView"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
  />
</LinearLayout>

and the listitemlayout.xml with the given layout


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
  android:orientation="vertical"
  android:layout_width="fill_parent"
  android:layout_height="fill_parent"
  >
  <TextView
    android:id="@+id/itemTextView"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:padding="10px"
    android:textSize="16px"
    android:textColor="#FFF"
  />
</LinearLayout>

the android manifest should have with the permission to pick the contacts as well . the manifest should look like this



<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
      package="jitesh.example.contactpicker"
      android:versionCode="1"
      android:versionName="1.0">
    <application android:icon="@drawable/icon" android:label="@string/app_name">
        <activity android:name=".ContactPicker"
                  android:label="@string/app_name">
            <intent-filter>
              <action android:name="android.intent.action.PICK"></action>
              <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT"></category>
              <data android:path="contacts" android:scheme="content"></data>
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>
        <activity android:name=".ContentPickerTester"
                android:label="Contact Picker Test">
          <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
          </intent-filter>
        </activity>
    </application>
    <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="7" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_CONTACTS"/>
</manifest>