Android get contact number using name

Question

I am trying to make an application on android that takes the contact name as a string input and returns his phone number if that contact exists in the phone book...

Answer 1

I wrote this method eventually to solve my problem

public String get_Number(String name,Context context)

{String number="";


Uri uri = ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI;
String[] projection    = new String[] {ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.DISPLAY_NAME,
                ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER};

Cursor people = context.getContentResolver().query(uri, projection, null, null, null);

int indexName = people.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.DISPLAY_NAME);
int indexNumber = people.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER);

people.moveToFirst();
do {
    String Name   = people.getString(indexName);
    String Number = people.getString(indexNumber);
    if(Name.equalsIgnoreCase(name)){return Number.replace("-", "");}
    // Do work...
} while (people.moveToNext());


if(!number.equalsIgnoreCase("")){return number.replace("-", "");}
else return number;
}

it may not be very efficient but hey it works