How to show custom type contact inside Contact like WhatsApp android

Question

/**
     * Account type id
     */
    public static final String ACCOUNT_TYPE = \"com.test.app\";

    /**
     * Account name
     */
    public static final String AC         


        

Answer 1

I had the same problem on Android 6.1 and as I heard, this issue is present since Lollipop. Every implementation on the web shows that the contact matching should work based on phone number. And it works on earlier systems - I tried it on KitKat and it works like a charm. But since Android 5.0 contacts don't match somehow.

Fortunately phone number is not the only parameter the matching depends on - there is also displayname. So the working implementation should look like this:

// as displayName pass the retrieved   ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME

@Override
public void addContact(@Nonnull final String displayName, @Nonnull final String phone) {

    final ContentResolver resolver = context.getContentResolver();

        final ArrayList ops = new ArrayList();

        ops.add(ContentProviderOperation
                .newInsert(addCallerIsSyncAdapterParameter(ContactsContract.RawContacts.CONTENT_URI, true))
                .withValue(ContactsContract.RawContacts.ACCOUNT_NAME, ACCOUNT_NAME)
                .withValue(ContactsContract.RawContacts.ACCOUNT_TYPE, ACCOUNT_TYPE)
                .withValue(ContactsContract.RawContacts.AGGREGATION_MODE,
                        ContactsContract.RawContacts.AGGREGATION_MODE_DEFAULT)
                .build());

        ops.add(ContentProviderOperation
                .newInsert(addCallerIsSyncAdapterParameter(ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI, true))
                .withValueBackReference(ContactsContract.Data.RAW_CONTACT_ID, 0)
                .withValue(ContactsContract.Data.MIMETYPE, ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE)
                .withValue(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER, phone)
                .build());

        ops.add(ContentProviderOperation
                    .newInsert(addCallerIsSyncAdapterParameter(ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI, true))
                    .withValueBackReference(ContactsContract.Data.RAW_CONTACT_ID, 0)
                    .withValue(ContactsContract.Data.MIMETYPE,
                            ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredName.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE)
                    .withValue(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredName.DISPLAY_NAME, displayName)
                    .build());

        ops.add(ContentProviderOperation
                .newInsert(addCallerIsSyncAdapterParameter(ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI, true))
                .withValueBackReference(ContactsContract.Data.RAW_CONTACT_ID, 0)
                .withValue(ContactsContract.Data.MIMETYPE, YOUR_MIMETYPE)
                .withValue(ContactsContract.Data.DATA1, 12345)
                .withValue(ContactsContract.Data.DATA2, "user")
                .withValue(ContactsContract.Data.DATA3, "action")
                .build());

        try {
            resolver.applyBatch(ContactsContract.AUTHORITY, ops);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

    }

I left the phoneNumber in case the contact doesn't have any displayname - then it would at least match on earlier Android versions.