Questions tagged [rawcontacts]
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Android: imported contacts are not visible
I'm using Adnroid dev SimpleSyncAdapter example to import cloud-based contacts into my application. The import runs fine, when I access contracts2.db in the emulator all contacts are there and raw_contacts, data and contacts tables seem to be…

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Getting Cursor IndexOutOfBound Exception when passing contact-id to fetch details from Contacts
I am getting contact details of a person according to the account name which is working fine but i get the exception for those contacts which have name but not numbers. I am also getting the contact ids for those but when i fetch the details using…

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Save Contacts as "Phone contact"
Is there way to programmatically adds the contact to the internal phone contacts book as a "phone contact"?
I've tried:
list.add(ContentProviderOperation
.newInsert(ContactsContract.RawContacts.CONTENT_URI)
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RawContacts DELETED flag not set
When we delete a contact from contact manager it set the RawContacts DELETED flag to "1".
In emulator when I delete a phone contact it is showing DELETED flag "1", but when I delete a phone contact from Samsung device it is showing that flag…

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ContentProvider (contacts) - no such column: metadata_dirty
I'm trying to get all contacts of a specific type from the phone like following:
Cursor cursor = context.getContentResolver().query(
ContactsContract.RawContacts.CONTENT_URI,
null,
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What is the use case for RawContact DATA_SET?
According to Android documentation (ContactsContract.RawContacts), the DATA_SET column provides another degree of uniqueness.
The data set within the account that this row belongs to. This allows
multiple sync adapters for the same account type…

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How can I sort RawContacts by their display name?
I need to read all contacts that belong to a specific account and sort them by their name.
And I would like to get them sorted in the Cursor rather then sort them after in an array.
This is what I currently do:
I make a query in…

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How to get rawcontact id with contact id and lookup key
I am trying to get rawcontacts._ID from contacts provider by using the lookup key and contact id stored in the application.
This function exists that might help me but I am not sure how to construct the rawContactUri
public static Uri…

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How to set default image to Android phone contact that has no previous image
I have a piece of code which updates the an Android contact´s image, the problem is that it doesn't work when the contact has no previous image. I also checked that the contact was from "Phone" account or "*@gmail.com" account. When it already has…

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Change of ContactsContract.RawContacts _ID after aggregation
According to Google docs, you should use LOOKUP_KEY to fetch a contact, since its ID in the ContactsContract.Contacts table can change:
An opaque value that contains hints on how to find the contact if its
row id changed as a result of a sync or…

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Get RawContact photo
I know it is possible to get the contact's photo using something like:
public InputStream getContactPhotoInputStream() throws IOException {
Uri uri = Uri.withAppendedPath(ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI, String.valueOf(mContactId));
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Deleting a specific RawContact content directory entry
I'm new to android dev, so I may get the whole concept totally wrong. I want to delete a specific entry from RawContact directory entry. Here is code that I have:
Uri rawContactUri = ContentUris.withAppendedId(RawContacts.CONTENT_URI,…

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Retrieving all Contacts that have a specific Account attached to them
I am making a communication app that has been set up with a specific Account type in the AccountManager and has a SyncAdapter attached to it. Several of my contacts have a RawContact which has a MIMETYPE of my new account and some associated data.
I…

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how to add an existing contact to the "Phone contacts" Account
iam adding a contact to the device using this code
long Contact_Id = 100;
ContentValues pCV =new ContentValues();
pCV.put(Contacts.People.NAME, "test");
pCV.put(ContactsContract.Contacts._ID, Contact_Id);
Uri newContactUri =…

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Problems in adding data to ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredName
I am trying to add Contact data in StructuredName with the following code. The problem is GIVEN_NAME is added but other fields are not added.
ops.add(ContentProviderOperation
.newInsert(ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI)
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