How to get the selected Contact Name (to pass it into an intent) after populating all contacts from phone into a listview?

Question

• The codes below helped me to retrieve all contacts into a listview in an activity, however i wanted to get the selected row of contact from the user to pass it into the intent but im not sure how to do it.

  Example: User selected Suzanne's contact, i want to be able to save "Suzanne" name and number in a string and pass to a intent

public class SendWhoosh_SelectContact extends ListActivity {

    private static final String TAG = "SendWhoosh";
    ListView listView;
    Cursor cursor;

    @Override
    public long getSelectedItemId()
    {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        return super.getSelectedItemId();
    }

    @Override
    public int getSelectedItemPosition()
    {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        return super.getSelectedItemPosition();
    }

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
    {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_send_whoosh_select_contact);

        cursor = getContentResolver().query(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI, null, null, null, null);
        startManagingCursor(cursor);

        String[] from = {ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.DISPLAY_NAME, ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER, ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone._ID};
        int[] to = {android.R.id.text1, android.R.id.text2};

        SimpleCursorAdapter listadapter = new SimpleCursorAdapter(this, android.R.layout.simple_list_item_2, cursor, from, to);
        setListAdapter(listadapter);

        listView = getListView();
        listView.setChoiceMode(ListView.CHOICE_MODE_MULTIPLE);


        listView.setOnItemClickListener(new AdapterView.OnItemClickListener()
        {
            @Override
            public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position, long id)
            {

                String phone = ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER;
                Log.d(TAG, "SendWhoosh: phone " + phone);


                    Intent intent = new Intent(SendWhoosh_SelectContact.this, EnterWhooshAmount.class);;
                    intent.putExtra("Name", name);
                    intent.putExtra("Number", phone);

                    startActivity(intent);

            }
        });
    } 


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:background="@drawable/whooshbg"
    android:id="@+id/activitywhoosh_screenarea"
    tools:context=".SendWhoosh_SelectContact">

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:id="@+id/li1">

        <ImageView
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_marginLeft="10dp"
            android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
            android:src="@drawable/back"/>

        <TextView
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_marginLeft="130dp"
            android:layout_marginTop="15dp"
            android:textColor="@color/white"
            android:text="Whoosh to "/>

    </LinearLayout>


    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginTop="50dp"
        android:orientation="vertical">

        <ListView
            android:id="@android:id/list"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="fill_parent" />

    </LinearLayout>



</RelativeLayout>

Answer 1

Set your onClickListener() and launch your intent as below;

listView.setOnItemClickListener(new AdapterView.OnItemClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> adapterView, View view, int position, long l) {
            launchAnotherActivity(position);
        }
    });
}

private void launchAnotherActivity(int position) {
    Intent intent = new Intent(this, EnterWhooshAmount.class);
    intent.putExtra("The_Position", position);
    startActivity(intent);
}

When you get to EnterWhooshAmount class, you will get the intent and retrieve the position clicked and with this position, you can retrieve the name etc. You can get the intent in EnterWhooshAmount class as below;

Intent i = getIntent();
if (i != null){
    int position = i.getIntExtra("The_Position", -1);
}

So, position is the integer you are looking for, hence, you can retrieve name etc with in this position where you saved it

Answer 2

listitem onclick listener changes this code get click item name and number.

listView.setOnItemClickListener(new AdapterView.OnItemClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position, long id) {

                String name = ((TwoLineListItem) view).getText1().getText().toString();
                String number = ((TwoLineListItem) view).getText2().getText().toString();



                Log.d(TAG, "SendWhoosh: phone " + name);
                Intent intent = new Intent(SendWhoosh_SelectContact.this, EnterWhooshAmount.class);;
                intent.putExtra("Name", name);
                intent.putExtra("Number", number);

                startActivity(intent);

            }
        });