How to have a custom contacts list in Android

Question

This is my first application in Android. I am trying to maintain a list of contacts (a subset of the phone contacts) in my own application. I was to an extent read the contacts from Android and try to manipulate with it. But the challenge I face is,

Storing the contacts (persisting) in the application preferably through Preferences. (ListPreference not usable for this).
I only need name, phone number and email from every contact and display it in a list view.

The equivalent iPhone version looks like this. But how to close achieve this in Android

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Any tips on achieving the above is much appreciated.

I do hope that's not a real phone number you're showing there. — AakashM, Dec 23 '11 at 22:16
I'd use SQLite. Don't make it fancy. Just a quick database adapter and an open helper. Then tailor an Insert, a Query, and a Delete to your needs. (You can do a delete and insert in your code for Update.) — Howard Hodson, Dec 24 '11 at 01:19
Just a funny suggestion.. Let Android stuff look like Android.. Don't create IPhone lookalikes ... — Alok Kulkarni, Dec 24 '11 at 19:18
@AlokKulkarni : obviously not. android does have contacts section, i want that layout here.. — bragboy, Dec 24 '11 at 19:19

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 24 '11 at 13:44

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If it is a subset of the phone contacts why don't you store in a SQLite table just the lookup-URI of the contacts you want to have in your subset? You can store both the contact lookup-URI and ID if you are worried about the performances of lookup-uri.

answered Dec 24 '11 at 13:44

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