contact exists in contacts

Question

I have phone number. Is there any way to check whether the phone number exists in contacts database in the device or not? Depending on that I need have move further in my ap

Answer 1

I tried the code above on an ice cream device (SIII) and it didnt work so after some search i ended up creating this method (which is working nicely )

    private boolean isContact(String incommingNumber) {
        Cursor cursor =null;
        String name = null;
        try {
            Uri uri = Uri.withAppendedPath(ContactsContract.PhoneLookup.CONTENT_FILTER_URI, Uri.encode(incommingNumber));
             cursor = MainService.this.getContentResolver().query(uri, new String[] { PhoneLookup.DISPLAY_NAME }, null, null, null);
            if (cursor != null && cursor.moveToFirst()) {
                name = cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex(PhoneLookup.DISPLAY_NAME));
            }
        } finally {
            if(cursor!=null){
                cursor.close();
            }
        }
        return Util.hasValue(name);
    }