Get contact name?

Question

I want to get the contact name, but I'm not able to. After looking at this answer, I tried to get the name using family, given, and display, but nothing worked

  @Override
    protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
        if (requestCode == PICK_CONTACT && resultCode == RESULT_OK) {
            Uri contactUri = data.getData();
            Cursor cursor = getContentResolver().query(contactUri, null, null, null, null);
            cursor.moveToFirst(); //Move to first row...I actually dont know why this part is necessary, but I get an error without it... 
            int NumberColumn = cursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER); //Int column is the column of the numbers
            int NameColumn = cursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredName.GIVEN_NAME);
            String contactNumber = cursor.getString(NumberColumn);
            String contactName = cursor.getString(NameColumn);
            Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, ""+ contactNumber +"" +contactName, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

        }

/

public void addContact(View v){ //OnClick listener to launch contact picker
    Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK, ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI);
    startActivityForResult(intent, PICK_CONTACT);
}

Anjali Tripathi · Accepted Answer · 2016-01-30T05:48:33.190

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Try below code for getting contact of specific number

@Override
protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
    super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);

    if (requestCode == REQUEST_CODE_PICK_CONTACTS && resultCode == RESULT_OK) {
        Log.d(TAG, "Response: " + data.toString());
        uriContact = data.getData();

        retrieveContactName();

    }
}

 private void retrieveContactName() {

        String contactName = null;

        // querying contact data store
        Cursor cursor = getContentResolver().query(uriContact, null, null, null, null);

        if (cursor.moveToFirst()) {

            // DISPLAY_NAME = The display name for the contact.
            // HAS_PHONE_NUMBER =   An indicator of whether this contact has at least one phone number.

            contactName = cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME));
        }

        cursor.close();

        Log.d(TAG, "Contact Name: " + contactName);

    }

More detail refer below link https://tausiq.wordpress.com/2012/08/23/android-get-contact-details-id-name-phone-photo/

edited Jan 30 '16 at 05:48

answered Jan 30 '16 at 04:49

Anjali Tripathi

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Why is it `if (cursor.moveToFirst()) {`? Thanks] – Ruchir Baronia Jan 30 '16 at 04:56
I think we only have one entry thats why we are using cursor movetofirst. First it will check is cursor is empty or not if not it will return data – Anjali Tripathi Jan 30 '16 at 05:10
is you able to get the phonenumber name ? – Anjali Tripathi Jan 30 '16 at 05:12
No because it is the same code that I provided in the question. – Ruchir Baronia Jan 30 '16 at 05:16
have you check number has name ? – Anjali Tripathi Jan 30 '16 at 05:20
change your line int NameColumn = cursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredName.GIVEN_NAME); with contactName = cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME)); – Anjali Tripathi Jan 30 '16 at 05:21
Yay, it works. Why did that change it? Isn't it saying the same thing? Please let me know why this works – Ruchir Baronia Jan 30 '16 at 05:26
have a look there http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8431897/get-first-and-last-name-of-a-contact-rather-than-single-display-name. you need to use genric data :) – Anjali Tripathi Jan 30 '16 at 05:32
also there http://developer.android.com/intl/ru/reference/android/provider/ContactsContract.Data.html and http://developer.android.com/intl/ru/reference/android/provider/ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredName.html – Anjali Tripathi Jan 30 '16 at 05:33
Thank you Anjali, I read it, but I still don't understand why the two are different. Could you explain please? Thanks! – Ruchir Baronia Jan 30 '16 at 05:36
replace this line Cursor cursor = getContentResolver().query(contactUri, null, null, null, null); – Anjali Tripathi Jan 30 '16 at 05:46
Let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/102057/discussion-between-anjali-tripathi-and-ruchir-baronia). – Anjali Tripathi Jan 30 '16 at 05:48
you need to apply some filter there inshort need to request the query as here say Cursor cursor = contentResolver.query(ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI, other_query_params_for_filtering); – Anjali Tripathi Jan 30 '16 at 05:49

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