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copied!<p>By seeing the answers, I think you got the answer how to fetch contacts and now you want to get the selected contacts on your activity. </p> <blockquote> <p>To fetch contact number specific to the contact name:</p> </blockquote> <pre><code>ContentResolver contactResolver = getContentResolver(); Cursor cursor = contactResolver.query(Phone.CONTENT_URI, null, Phone.DISPLAY_NAME + "=?", new String[]{contactName}, null); if(cursor.getCount() > 0){ cursor.moveToFirst(); do { String number = cursor.getString(mCursor.getColumnIndex(Phone.NUMBER)); }while (cursor.moveToNext() ); } </code></pre> <p><strong>Note:</strong> Here <code>contactName</code> is the contact name of which you want to fecth contact numbers.</p> <blockquote> <p>I am assuming that you have shown the contacts with checkbox in ListView and here is your solution to get the contact list selected by the user to your activity:</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>1.</strong> Start your contact activity with <code>startActivityForResult()</code>.</p> <p><strong>2.</strong> Initialize <code>ArrayList</code> variable in contact activity say it <code>contactArrayList</code>.</p> <p><strong>3.</strong> When user <code>checks the checkbox</code>, add this contact in your <code>contactArrayList</code> and keep on adding and when <code>unchecks</code> then remove the contact from the <code>contactArrayList</code>.</p> <p><strong>4.</strong> When user presses done then set the result ok with the selected contact list which you have added in <code>contactArrayList</code> like this:</p> <pre><code>Intent intent = new Intent(); Bundle bundle = new Bundle(); bundle.putStringArrayList("contacts", contactArrayList); intent.putExtras(bundle); setResult(RESULT_OK, intent); </code></pre> <p>and <code>finish()</code> this activity.</p> <p><strong>5.</strong> On your calling activity override:</p> <pre><code>@Override protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) { super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data); if(resultCode == RESULT_OK && data != null ){ Bundle bundle = new Bundle(); bundle = data.getExtras(); ArrayList list = bundle.getStringArrayList("contacts"); } } </code></pre> <p><strong>Note:</strong> The above code was tested over 2.3.3.</p>

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