Get all Contacts (Both from Phone and sim ) in a listview

Question

I am a new developer . I am making app in which i want all Contacts in a listView . Contact name as main item and number as subitem . I do some but i can't to get all contact ( both from phone and sim ) .

How to get all contacts ?? how to set the name as main item and the number as subitem ??

please help . thanks in advance .

Answer 1

You need to query the ContactsContract database using a contentResolver . You can then use a SimpleCursorAdapter to link this to your list view. There are quite a few examples of how to do this on the web if you search around, eg:

http://learnandroideasily.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/how-to-access-contacts-in-android.html

Make sure you read up a bit on how the contacts are actually stored on Android as it is a slightly complicated 3-tier system:

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/provider/ContactsContract.html

Answer 2

Try this,

http://www.higherpass.com/Android/Tutorials/Working-With-Android-Contacts/

I hope this will help.. and if you need to store contact to listview.. first you store all values in arraylist . and pass the arraylist to adapter . Then you display the contacts using listview

Answer 3

Do query on ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI like you can see here : get all contacts phone number . And do some research on Google from your own :).

For the ListView, search a tutorial to create a ListView.