How to respond whenever a new contact is added in android

Question

I am new to android programming,i want to perform specific actions whenever a new contact is added to android device,In broadcast receivers,we have actions like BOOT_COMPLETED,similarly can we something for new contacts added,please help Thanks in advance

Answer 1

The Solution is using the RAWContacts

There's no broadcast when a contact is added/changed. However, when you look up your contacts in the RawContacts table you have a DIRTY column which is 1 if the contact was changed since the last sync.

You can check

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/provider/ContactsContract.RawContacts.html

for more information

Answer 2

have a look at this question and answer, this may help you Phonebook Update.

This answer uses ContentObserver

Also you can use SyncAdapters from this answer.