Importing Contacts to an android app

Question

I am trying to make a text messaging app for android. I would like the layout to be pretty similar to that of the native app, but it will include additional features. I need to create a contacts screen that is automatically synchronized with the Android contacts. Any ideas on where to start with this?

Answer 1

You are going to need to look at reading contacts from the android device, that can be found here -

• How to read contacts on Android 2.0

I would display them in a list view, which you can look at here -

• http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/layout/listview.html

• http://www.mkyong.com/android/android-listview-example/