Android QuickContact dialog

Question

How can you get the contact's data that opened your app from the QuickContact dialog? I'm developing a SMS app and I want to fill the recipient's field with this contact's number when the app is launched.

Answer 1

you can have all data from your phone book in your own list view so that you can select contact from list and it will directly appear into recipients field.

here is code to retrieve all contact details into you own list view as follows :

public class ContactListDemo extends ListActivity implements Runnable{

private List<Contact> contacts = null;
private Contact con;
private ContactArrayAdapter cAdapter;
private ProgressDialog prog = null;
private Context thisContext = this;

/** Called when the activity is first created. */
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    prog = ProgressDialog.show(this, "ContactListDemo", "Getting Contacts", true, false);
    Thread thread = new Thread(this);
    thread.start();
}

public void run() {
    if (contacts == null)
    {
        contacts = fillContactsList();
    }
    handler.sendEmptyMessage(0);
}

private List<Contact> fillContactsList() {
    List<Contact> tmpList = new ArrayList<Contact>();
    Cursor c = getContentResolver().query(ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI, null, null, null, null);
    while(c.moveToNext()){
        String ContactID = c.getString(c.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts._ID));
        String name = c.getString(c.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME));
        String hasPhone =c.getString(
                c.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts.HAS_PHONE_NUMBER));
        if(Integer.parseInt(hasPhone) == 1){

             Cursor emails = getContentResolver().query(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.CONTENT_URI,null,
                     ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.CONTACT_ID+ " = " + ContactID, null, null);
             while (emails.moveToNext()) 
             {
                 // This would allow you get several email addresses
                 String emailAddress = emails.getString(emails.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.DATA));
                 con = new Contact();
                 con.setName(name);
                 con.setEmail(emailAddress);

               tmpList.add(con);
               emails.close();         
             }
        }

    }
    c.close();
    Collections.sort(tmpList);
    return tmpList;
}

private Handler handler = new Handler() {
    @Override
    public void handleMessage(Message msg) {
        prog.dismiss();
        cAdapter = new ContactArrayAdapter(thisContext, R.layout.listitemlayout, contacts);

        cAdapter.setNotifyOnChange(true);
        //ContactArrayAdapter(thisContext, android.R.layout.simple_list_item_multiple_choice, contacts);
        getListView().setFastScrollEnabled(true);
        setListAdapter(cAdapter);

    }
};

@Override
protected void onListItemClick(ListView l, View v, int position, long id) {
    super.onListItemClick(l, v, position, id);
    TextView label = ((TwoLineListItem) v).getText2();
    TextView label1 = ((TwoLineListItem) v).getText1();
    String phoneNumber = label.getText().toString();
    String name = label1.getText().toString();
  //  int phoneNumber1 = label.getId();
    Toast.makeText(this, "Selected " + name +"id" + phoneNumber, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}

Answer 2

Sorted it.
To get the contact's number use:

String launchContactNo = getIntent().getDataString();

This will return:

 smsto:5556

(which is the contact's number)