When an Android phone receives a call it automatically checks if the call exists in its own contact database. I was wondering if there is a simple way to access that information. I have a PhoneStateListener
that performs certain actions during a ringing state, and I want to check if the incoming caller is in the contacts list.
Is there a way to do this without going through the Contacts ContentProvider
?
The phone app uses the contacts ContentProvider
too; I'm not sure why you would want to avoid that. Besides, it's the only publicly-accessible way of accessing that information.
Resolving a number to a name (pre 2.0, in this case) is simple enough anyway:
Uri uri = Uri.withAppendedPath(Phones.CONTENT_FILTER_URL, Uri.encode(number));
String name = null;
Cursor cursor = context.getContentResolver().query(uri,
new String[] { Phones.DISPLAY_NAME }, null, null, null);
if (cursor != null && cursor.moveToFirst()) {
name = cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex(Phones.DISPLAY_NAME));
cursor.close();
}
Here is the code for 2.0 and later
Uri uri = Uri.withAppendedPath(PhoneLookup.CONTENT_FILTER_URI, Uri.encode(phoneNumber));
Cursor cursor = resolver.query(uri, new String[]{PhoneLookup.DISPLAY_NAME}, null, null, null);
if (cursor != null && cursor.moveToFirst()) {
String name = cursor.getString(0);
cursor.close();
}