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Read all contacts’ phone numbers in android

February 22, 2023 by Tarik

Following code shows an easy way to read all phone numbers and names: Cursor phones = getContentResolver().query(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI, null,null,null, null); while (phones.moveToNext()) { String name=phones.getString(phones.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.DISPLAY_NAME)); String phoneNumber = phones.getString(phones.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER)); } phones.close(); NOTE: getContentResolver is a method from the Activity context.

How to fetch all contacts record in iOS 9 using Contacts Framework

February 12, 2023 by Tarik

Both other answers do only load contacts from the container with the defaultContainerIdentifier. In a scenario, where the user has more than one container (i.e. an Exchange and an iCloud account which both are used to store contacts), this would only load the contacts from the account that is configured as the default. Therefore, it … Read more

How to read contacts on Android 2.0

January 15, 2023 by Tarik

First, ensure that you have added <uses-permission android:name=”android.permission.READ_CONTACTS”/> to your AndroidManifest.xml file, then you can loop through your phone contacts like this: Cursor cursor = getContentResolver().query(ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI,null, null, null, null); while (cursor.moveToNext()) { String contactId = cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex( ContactsContract.Contacts._ID)); String hasPhone = cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts.HAS_PHONE_NUMBER)); if (Boolean.parseBoolean(hasPhone)) { // You know it has a number so now query it … Read more

Programmatically Request Access to Contacts

December 29, 2022 by Tarik

As per this documentation on apple’s site (scroll down to Privacy in the middle of the page), access to the address book must be granted before it can be access programmatically. Here is what I ended up doing. #import <AddressBookUI/AddressBookUI.h> // Request authorization to Address Book ABAddressBookRef addressBookRef = ABAddressBookCreateWithOptions(NULL, NULL); if (ABAddressBookGetAuthorizationStatus() == kABAuthorizationStatusNotDetermined) … Read more

How to call Android contacts list?

December 11, 2022 by Tarik

I’m not 100% sure what your sample code is supposed to do, but the following snippet should help you ‘call the contacts list function, pick a contact, then return to [your] app with the contact’s name’. There are three steps to this process. 1. Permissions Add a permission to read contacts data to your application … Read more