Android Launching Contacts Application

Question

I wanna launch the Contacts application from my application Activity. I am not able to understand how to do it.

    Button contact = (Button) findViewById(R.id.contact);
    contact.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        public void onClick(View arg0) {
            Intent i4 = new Intent();
            i4.setAction(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
            i4.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_DEFAULT);
            i4.setType("vnd.android.cursor.dir/phone");
            startActivity(i4);
        }
    });

Error:

score 9 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 26 '11 at 08:15

void showContacts()
{
    Intent i = new Intent();
    i.setComponent(new ComponentName("com.android.contacts", "com.android.contacts.DialtactsContactsEntryActivity"));
    i.setAction("android.intent.action.MAIN");
    i.addCategory("android.intent.category.LAUNCHER");
    i.addCategory("android.intent.category.DEFAULT");
    startActivity(i);
}

This should work in everything from Donut through to Gingerbread: not sure about Honeycomb.

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 26 '11 at 07:13

1

You can launch a contact Picker:

public void doLaunchContactPicker(View view) {  
    Intent contactPickerIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK,  
            Contacts.CONTENT_URI);  
    startActivityForResult(contactPickerIntent, CONTACT_PICKER_RESULT);  
}

Or you can also launch the app:

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/provider/Contacts.Intents.html

answered Apr 26 '11 at 07:13

Waza_Be

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i wanna launch the application not the picker – Harsha M V Apr 26 '11 at 07:15
i am using 2.2 version and Contacts is decapitated – Harsha M V Apr 26 '11 at 07:50
see ContactsContract: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/provider/ContactsContract.html – Waza_Be Apr 26 '11 at 09:56

Android Launching Contacts Application

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