Getting specific contact information

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I'm trying to get the given name, family name etc of a specific contact on android but can't seem to be able to. I've been banging my head on this for hours, basically if (nameCur.moveNext()) is always false! This code is originally by @perborin (How to get the first name and last name from Android contacts?). Please help!

P.S. I've added <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_CONTACTS"/> in the AndroidManifest, so that is not the problem.

// A contact ID is fetched from ContactList
Uri resultUri = data.getData(); 
Cursor cont = getContentResolver().query(resultUri, null, null, null, null);
if (!cont.moveToNext()) {   
    Toast.makeText(this, "Cursor contains no data", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show(); 
                return;
}
int columnIndexForId = cont.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts._ID);
String contactId = cont.getString(columnIndexForId);

// Fetch contact name with a specific ID
String whereName = ContactsContract.Data.MIMETYPE + " = ? AND " + ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredName.CONTACT_ID + " = " + contactId; 
String[] whereNameParams = new String[] { ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredName.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE };
Cursor nameCur = getContentResolver().query(ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI, null, whereName, whereNameParams, ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredName.GIVEN_NAME);
while (nameCur.moveToNext()) {
    String given = nameCur.getString(nameCur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredName.GIVEN_NAME));
    String family = nameCur.getString(nameCur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredName.FAMILY_NAME));
    String display = nameCur.getString(nameCur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredName.DISPLAY_NAME));
    Toast.makeText(this, "Name: " + given + " Family: " +  family + " Displayname: "  + display, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
}
nameCur.close();
cont.close();

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:59

Solved by referring to user3717188 answer at Get first and last name of a contact rather than single display name?.

Cursor phone_cursor = cr.query(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.
                Phone.CONTENT_URI, null, null, null, null);
        while (phone_cursor.moveToNext()) {
            try {
            int id = Integer.parseInt(phone_cursor.getString(phone_cursor.getColumnIndex
                    (ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTACT_ID)));
            Cursor name_cursor = cr.query(ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI,null,
                    ContactsContract.Data.CONTACT_ID + "  = " + id, null, null);

                String name = phone_cursor.getString(phone_cursor.getColumnIndex
                        (ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.DISPLAY_NAME));
                String first_name ="";
                String last_name = "";
                while (name_cursor.moveToNext()) {
                    if(name_cursor.getString(name_cursor.getColumnIndex
                            (ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredName.FAMILY_NAME))!=null){
                    first_name = name_cursor.getString(name_cursor.getColumnIndex
                            (ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredName.GIVEN_NAME));
                    last_name = name_cursor.getString(name_cursor.getColumnIndex
                            (ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredName.FAMILY_NAME));
                }}
                name_cursor.close();
                String phoneNumber = phone_cursor.getString(phone_cursor.getColumnIndex
                        (ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER));
            } catch (Exception e) {
            }
        }
        phone_cursor.close();

Getting specific contact information

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