Pick contact directly from contact picker intent

Question

Hello I want to pick a contact from our default contact book intent. I tried several ways to do it. Please find the code below. The problem with all those code is that they open one intermediate documents screen with few options there user has to select contact and than it opens contact book.

private void openContactIntent() {
     Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT, ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI);
     intent.setType(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE);
     startActivityForResult(intent, REQ_CONTACT_DIRECTORY);
}

I also tried

Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK, ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI);
startActivityForResult(intent, PICK_CONTACT);

and

Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK);
intent.setType(ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_TYPE);
startActivityForResult(intent, PICK_CONTACT); 

What I see as an intermediate screen is

Solution 1

I also had the same problem. Finally, I got rid of intermediate picker screen using below code,

Intent i=new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK);
i.setType(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_TYPE);
startActivityForResult(i, SELECT_PHONE_NUMBER);

In onActivityResult get phone number as below

if (requestCode == SELECT_PHONE_NUMBER && resultCode == RESULT_OK) {
  // Get the URI and query the content provider for the phone number
  Uri contactUri = data.getData();
  String[] projection = new String[]{ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER};
  Cursor cursor = getContext().getContentResolver().query(contactUri, projection,
      null, null, null);

  // If the cursor returned is valid, get the phone number
  if (cursor != null && cursor.moveToFirst()) {
    int numberIndex = cursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER);
    String number = cursor.getString(numberIndex);
    // Do something with the phone number
    ... 
  } 

  cursor.close();
}

Solution 2

Try the below code to pick contact:

Intent contactPickerIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK,
                    ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI);
            startActivityForResult(contactPickerIntent, RESULT_PICK_CONTACT);

You can fetch the required information in onActivityResult as follows:

protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
    if (resultCode == RESULT_OK) {
        switch (requestCode) {
            case RESULT_PICK_CONTACT:
                  Cursor cursor = null;
    try {
        String phoneNo = null;
        String name = null;

        Uri uri = data.getData();
        cursor = getContentResolver().query(uri, null, null, null, null);
        cursor.moveToFirst();
        int  phoneIndex =cursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER);
        int  nameIndex =cursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.DISPLAY_NAME);
        phoneNo = cursor.getString(phoneIndex);
        name = cursor.getString(nameIndex);

       Log.e("Name and Contact number is",name+","+phoneNo);

    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
                break;
        }
    } else {
        Log.e("Failed", "Not able to pick contact");
    }
}

Solution 3

Here is a way to pick name, phone number from Contact in Kotlin

private fun pickEmergencyFromContacts() {
    val i = Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK)
    i.type = ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_TYPE
    startActivityForResult(i, SELECT_PHONE_NUMBER)
}

override fun onActivityResult(requestCode: Int, resultCode: Int, data: Intent?) {
    super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data)
    if (requestCode == SELECT_PHONE_NUMBER && resultCode == Activity.RESULT_OK) {
        val contactUri = data?.data ?: return
        val projection = arrayOf(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.DISPLAY_NAME,
                ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER)
        val cursor = requireContext().contentResolver.query(contactUri, projection,
                null, null, null)

        if (cursor != null && cursor.moveToFirst()) {
            val nameIndex = cursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.DISPLAY_NAME)
            val numberIndex = cursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER)
            val name = cursor.getString(nameIndex)
            val number = cursor.getString(numberIndex)

            // do something with name and phone
        }
        cursor?.close()
    }
}

companion object {

    private const val SELECT_PHONE_NUMBER = 111    
    ...
}

Hope it help

Solution 4

For Android 11+, need to add below code in AndroidManifest

......
</application>
    <queries>
        <intent>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
            <data android:mimeType="vnd.android.cursor.dir/contact" />
        </intent>
    </queries>
</manifest>

Solution 5

This works for me:

Intent it= new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK, 
     ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI); 
startActivityForResult(it, requestCode);

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Comments

[android_griezmann]

Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK, ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI); startActivityForResult(intent, PICK_CONTACT); It's working for me!

[Hardik Trivedi]

Is it related to any OS ? I am running code on Android N. And for me it not working. I have not added any permissions.

[android_griezmann]

I am running Android N too!

[Hardik Trivedi]

And permissions ?

[Hardik Trivedi]

This is opening a side menu screen like attached screenshot in phone and not even showing contact inside it.

[android_griezmann]

No permission needed! Paste your targetSdkVersion

[android_griezmann]

Let us continue this discussion in chat.

[Hardik Trivedi]

I am able to solve the problem. There is some catch with the request code. I was using request code 10. The moment I use some odd number like 8500 it started working fine. Anyone knows the reason?

[Maifee Ul Asad]

Does this answer your question? Trying to insert contact into edittext using contact picker

[Android Geek]

oH..!! It's great..!!

[Silvia H]

This actually still opens the file manager on some devices, better also add intent.setType(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTEN‌​T_TYPE);

[Trevor Hart]

This worked well for me except getContext needed to be replaced with a reference to the activity (this), otherwise I got a no instrumentation registered issue.

[Taha Kirmani]

This only gives 1 contact, is there a way to select multiple contacts in one go?

[Ganesan J]

here what is RESULT_PICK_CONTACT . it is string or other variable ?

[Ohad Cohen]

@Ganesan J It's an int, have a look at Getting a result from an activity article

[behelit]

Works well but the result code is random for some reason, could be an Android 11 issue

[Somnath Kadam]

For Android 11+, changes in AndroidManifest file like stackoverflow.com/a/67600033/1889825

[devDeejay]

Do you know how to call the pending intents using the registerActivityForResult. I am stuck with a compile-time error where .launch() function is expecting a pending intent.

[Thirumalvalavan]

I didn't try with pending intent. Below link answer may help to you, stackoverflow.com/questions/10362525/…