Android Contact phone number using Loader Invalid column data1

Question

I used to use content resolver previously to fetch Contact list and their details while that still works I wanted to try the Loader method which queries the Content Provider

Answer 1

This is an excerpt of what I actually do in my (working) code.

These are my relevant imports:

import android.provider.ContactsContract;
import android.provider.ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email;
import android.provider.ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone;
import android.provider.ContactsContract.Contacts;

Given that id is a string (representing a number, like "1", "20", ...)

// Query for phone numbers for the selected contact id
final Cursor cur = getContentResolver().query
    (
    Phone.CONTENT_URI, null,
    Phone.CONTACT_ID + "=?",
    new String[] {id}, null
    );

final int phoneIdx = cur.getColumnIndex(Phone.NUMBER);
final int phoneType = cur.getColumnIndex(Phone.TYPE);

// ...

    if(cur.moveToFirst())
    {
        final String name =
            cur.getString
            (
                cur.getColumnIndexOrThrow
                (
                    ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME
                )
            );
    }

Hope it puts you on the right path

Answer 2

In my case the problem was with URI.

I was using this:

Uri uri = ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI;

and I changed for this (Phone.CONTENT_URI) to resolve the problem and obtain the phone number:

Uri uri = ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI;

This is the rest of the code:

contactos = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.contactos);

Uri uri = ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI;

String [] projection = new String[] {
                ContactsContract.Contacts._ID,
                ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME,
                ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER
        };

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

while (cursor.moveToNext()){
            String nombre = cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Data.DISPLAY_NAME));
            String telefono = cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER));
            contactos.append("Name: ");
            contactos.append(nombre);
            contactos.append(" - Phone Number: ");
            contactos.append(telefono);
            contactos.append("\n");
        }

Answer 3

Change Your Query URI.

You are using a URI that is not meant for searching/filtering those columns (e.g. phone numbers) on Contacts:

You need to use a URI that has access to the columns you're trying to filter on, like this:

Uri uri = ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI;

Or maybe this one since you're searching phone numbers:

Uri uri = ContactsContract.PhoneLookup.CONTENT_FILTER_URI;

There's a decent breakdown of what URIs to use and when on the Android SDK Documentation:

• If you need to read an individual contact, consider using CONTENT_LOOKUP_URI instead of CONTENT_URI.

• If you need to look up a contact by the phone number, use PhoneLookup.CONTENT_FILTER_URI, which is optimized for this purpose.

• If you need to look up a contact by partial name, e.g. to produce filter-as-you-type suggestions, use the CONTENT_FILTER_URI URI.

• If you need to look up a contact by some data element like email address, nickname, etc, use a query against the ContactsContract.Data table. The result will contain contact ID, name etc.