Search contact by phone number

Question

In my app, user writes a phone number, and I want to find the contact name with that phone number?

I usually search the contacts like this:

Cursor cur = getContentResolver().query(ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI,
            null, null, null, null);

But I do this to access all contacts... In this app I only want to get the contact name of the given phone number... How can I restrict the query?

Or do I have to go trough all contacts and see if any has the given phone number? But I believe that this can be very slow this way...

Read the documentation about what all those nulls can be replaced with :) — Christopher Orr, Sep 14 '10 at 20:16
For the facility of others, I have written a post which contains the whole code to query name, photo, contact ID, etc. with decent explanation. The code contains snippets as found on different answers, but more organized and tested. Hope it helps. Link: http://hellafun.weebly.com/home/get-information-of-a-contact-from-number — Usman, May 02 '17 at 15:12

score 89 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 01 '11 at 13:28

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If you want the complete code:

public String getContactDisplayNameByNumber(String number) {
    Uri uri = Uri.withAppendedPath(ContactsContract.PhoneLookup.CONTENT_FILTER_URI, Uri.encode(number));
    String name = "?";

    ContentResolver contentResolver = getContentResolver();
    Cursor contactLookup = contentResolver.query(uri, new String[] {BaseColumns._ID,
            ContactsContract.PhoneLookup.DISPLAY_NAME }, null, null, null);

    try {
        if (contactLookup != null && contactLookup.getCount() > 0) {
            contactLookup.moveToNext();
            name = contactLookup.getString(contactLookup.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Data.DISPLAY_NAME));
            //String contactId = contactLookup.getString(contactLookup.getColumnIndex(BaseColumns._ID));
        }
    } finally {
        if (contactLookup != null) {
            contactLookup.close();
        }
    }

    return name;
}

answered Nov 01 '11 at 13:28

Felipe

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Thanks! I wouldn't initialize the `name` variable as `null` is an appropriate return value when there are no records. – Tom Susel Apr 15 '14 at 17:33
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What about the special cases, where the user entered a partial number , yet the numbers stored in a format that doesn't match it? For example, in Israel the country prefix is "+972" , and for some cell phone numbers, you add "050", but if it's the full number, it becomes "97250" ( without the first "0") . So, if the user types "050" (to search all phone numbers that has it or at least start with it) , it won't get any result... – android developer Jan 04 '15 at 10:19
In my case, I implemented a function to filter a raw number and make all possible combinations, and then I search one by one. Unfortunately I think Android does not have a way to simplify this. Am I wrong? – Felipe Jan 05 '15 at 17:43
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How to search for multiple phone numbers? – Shajeel Afzal Mar 10 '15 at 08:20

score 34 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 16 '16 at 16:01

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You should have a look at the recommended ContactsContract.PhoneLookup provider

A table that represents the result of looking up a phone number, for example for caller ID. To perform a lookup you must append the number you want to find to CONTENT_FILTER_URI. This query is highly optimized.

Uri uri = Uri.withAppendedPath(PhoneLookup.CONTENT_FILTER_URI, Uri.encode(phoneNumber));
resolver.query(uri, new String[]{PhoneLookup.DISPLAY_NAME,...

edited Sep 16 '16 at 16:01

Shachar Shemesh

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answered Sep 14 '10 at 20:42

Pentium10

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Thanks. Im trying to call getContentResolver() in my broadcast receiver, but it looks like that function doesnt exist... – Tiago Costa Sep 14 '10 at 20:56
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Try to prefix the context param you have, so be it context.getContentResolver() – Pentium10 Sep 15 '10 at 08:25
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What specifically goes into the rest of that query? This answer isn't much more helpful than the already existing documentation. – eternalmatt Mar 19 '11 at 21:24
There you enumerate other columns from `PhoneLookup` for return. – Pentium10 Mar 19 '11 at 21:47
any idea how to search by phone number _or_ name? Edit: that would be CDK.Phone.CONTENT_FILTER_URI, as it seems – njzk2 Mar 26 '12 at 16:37
How come it returns a cursor with multiple results in it? Are they multiple contacts? – android developer Nov 30 '16 at 17:39

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