How to get list of email addresses from Contacts for autocomplete field in Android?

Question

I've read through the docs and searched on here, but I'm not quite understanding how all the pieces fit together. Was wondering if anyone has a clear explanation of how to grab a single column of data from Contacts and have it populate an autocomplete box.

Answer 1

In onCreate():

1. Created a SimpleCursor to create a managed query into the contacts database:

   Cursor emailAddressCursor = managedQuery(Contacts.ContactMethods.CONTENT_EMAIL_URI, PROJECTION, null, null, Contacts.ContactMethods.DATA + " ASC");

2. Created a SimpleCursorAdapter to connect data to the cursor.

3. Implemented setFilterQueryProvider() in my adapter to return a managed query when constraint is passed in when filtering.

4. The final step is to call setAdapter() on the TextView passing in your adapter.