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

Try this way..

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

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

            int idxName = cursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.DISPLAY_NAME);
            int idxNumber = cursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER);

            if(cursor.moveToFirst()) {
                do {
                    contactname   = cursor.getString(idxName);
                    contactNumber = cursor.getString(idxNumber);

                    if (contactname.equals("YOUR CONTACT NAME")){
                        Log.d(LOG_TAG,"Contact Name -> "+ contactname +" Contact Number -> "+ contactNumber);
                    }
                } while (cursor.moveToNext());
            }
            cursor.close();

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

Try this way...

Cursor cur = cr.query(ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI, null,);
String name = cur.getString(cur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME));
if(name.equals(Your_String)) {
    Cursor pCur = cr.query(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI, null, ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTACT_ID + " = ?", new String[] { id }, null);
    String lname = pCur.getString(pCur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER));
}