Cannot get the uri based on a contact's name

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I started building my app for api 13, because I thougth it could be efficient enough for the most users. But i changed it to api 10. Then the following code stopped working `

             String empName=data.getStringExtra("name");
             String hourPay=data.getStringExtra("hourPay");
             String key="";
             String id=""; 

            Uri lookupUri = Uri.withAppendedPath(ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_FILTER_URI, empName);
            Cursor idCursor = getContentResolver().query(lookupUri, null, null, null, null);                

            idCursor.moveToFirst();
            id = idCursor.getString(idCursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts._ID));
            key = idCursor.getString(idCursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts.LOOKUP_KEY));`

The problem is that it works only with contact names written in English or the ones that have just name (not surname)

For example : It works for the following contacts : Express Service, George, Maria Mpakou, Σοφια, With no distinction between languages

But when a contact is written in my language (greek) and has space (e.g Αιμιλιος Δημιος) it returns the underneath cursor with index out of bounds.

When i first tried at api 13 worked like a charm. By the way my Android.Manifest has utf-8 encoding if that has something to do with it Please any recomendation will bw helpfull. Thanks

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 11 '13 at 21:47

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After a lot of search i finally did it with a different way...like asking a Sql query to all contacts

Here is the code:

String empName=data.getStringExtra("name");
Cursor idCursor = getContentResolver().query(                 
ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI,null,Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME+" = '"+empName+"'", null, null);

That worked like a charm!

edited Feb 11 '13 at 21:47

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Cannot get the uri based on a contact's name

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