Contact source icon from Contacts Provider

Question

In the Android Contacts application, non-local contacts have a icon to indicate the source of the contact (e.g. Google contact, Skype contact). My application is showing all the contacts and I want to show the source using the same icon. However, I don't want to maintain my own set of icons. Is it possible to get this icon from the ContactProvider. I found the API that provided the contact a/c info but don't see the constant for icon. Is it possible to get this icon. If yes then how?

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score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 28 '14 at 00:50

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I think the CONTACT_STATUS_ICON might be what you're looking for. Not 100% sure though.

answered Jan 28 '14 at 00:50

rhnoble

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I tried using this field. It is always null for all my contacts. – rakmoh Jan 28 '14 at 18:22

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:56

Finally figured out the way to do this. Here are the steps:

Get Contact's ACCOUN_TYPE.
Add GET_ACCOUNTS permission in the manifest file.
Get the Account using AccountManager getAccountsByType. Note that this returns an array but we can assume that all of them have the same icon (for the same account type), so just fetch the first one.
Now get the icon for the account using the code from here

Contact source icon from Contacts Provider

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