How do i get the SMS Sender Contact (Person) saved name using “content://sms/inbox”

Question

In my App i want to retrieve the SMS sender saved Name using below code but it always return null. Please suggest me whats the convenient way to get the sender name.

Answer 1

Uri uriInbox = Uri.parse("content://sms/inbox");

            Cursor c = getContentResolver().query(uriInbox, null, null, null, null); 


            if (c.moveToFirst()) {
                for (int i = 0; i < c.getCount(); i++) {
                    String name = null;
                    String phone = "";
                    String _id = c.getString(c.getColumnIndexOrThrow("_id"));
                    String thread_id = c.getString(c.getColumnIndexOrThrow("thread_id"));
                    String msg = c.getString(c.getColumnIndexOrThrow("body"));
                    String type = c.getString(c.getColumnIndexOrThrow("type"));
                    String timestamp = c.getString(c.getColumnIndexOrThrow("date"));
                    phone = c.getString(c.getColumnIndexOrThrow("address"));
                    name = Function.getContactbyPhoneNumber(getApplicationContext(), c.getString(c.getColumnIndexOrThrow("address")));


                    c.moveToNext();
                }
            }
            c.close();

Finally your getContactbyPhoneNumber method:

public String getContactbyPhoneNumber(Context c, String phoneNumber) {

    Uri uri = Uri.withAppendedPath(ContactsContract.PhoneLookup.CONTENT_FILTER_URI, Uri.encode(phoneNumber));
    String[] projection = {ContactsContract.PhoneLookup.DISPLAY_NAME};
    Cursor cursor = c.getContentResolver().query(uri, projection, null, null, null);

    if (cursor == null) {
        return phoneNumber;
    }else {
        String name = phoneNumber;
        try {

            if (cursor.moveToFirst()) {
                name = cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.PhoneLookup.DISPLAY_NAME));
            }

        } finally {
            cursor.close();
        }

        return name;
    }
}

Courtesy: http://www.androstock.com/tutorials/create-sms-app-android-android-studio-part-2.html