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    <p>I have an app in which one aspect is for a user to select a contact and send a text to that contact thru the app. The app only works with some contacts and fails on others. More precisely:</p> <p>for the contacts that I entered into my contact book by hand, the <code>Intent.ACTION_PICK</code> has no trouble finding and returning them to the app, i.e. <code>cursor.moveToFirst()</code> is true.</p> <p>But for the contact that were imported by Facebook (my phone is set to sync with Facebook contacts), I get the following <code>android.database.CursorIndexOutOfBoundsException</code> after I click on the contact. One glaring question I have is: why is the result size 0 after I literally selected a contact? Why is <code>cursor.moveToFirst()</code> false?</p> <pre><code>...Caused by: android.database.CursorIndexOutOfBoundsException: Index 0 requested, with a size of 0 05-15 17:57:04.741: E/AndroidRuntime(21301): at android.database.AbstractCursor.checkPosition(AbstractCursor.java:418) 05-15 17:57:04.741: E/AndroidRuntime(21301): at android.database.AbstractWindowedCursor.checkPosition(AbstractWindowedCursor.java:136) 05-15 17:57:04.741: E/AndroidRuntime(21301): at android.database.AbstractWindowedCursor.getString(AbstractWindowedCursor.java:50) 05-15 17:57:04.741: E/AndroidRuntime(21301): at android.database.CursorWrapper.getString(CursorWrapper.java:114) 05-15 17:57:04.741: E/AndroidRuntime(21301): at com.company.Game.SendTextActivity.onActivityResult(SendTextActivity.java:118) 05-15 17:57:04.741: E/AndroidRuntime(21301): at android.app.Activity.dispatchActivityResult(Activity.java:5436) 05-15 17:57:04.741: E/AndroidRuntime(21301): at android.app.ActivityThread.deliverResults(ActivityThread.java:3188) 05-15 17:57:04.741: E/AndroidRuntime(21301): ... 11 more </code></pre> <p>Here is my code:</p> <p>dispatchIntent:</p> <pre><code>Intent pickContactIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK, Uri.parse("content://contacts")); pickContactIntent.setType(Phone.CONTENT_TYPE); // Show user only contacts w/ phone numbers startActivityForResult(pickContactIntent, PICK_CONTACT_REQUEST); </code></pre> <p>onActivity result:</p> <pre><code>(requestCode == PICK_CONTACT_REQUEST) { // Get the URI that points to the selected contact Uri contactUri = data.getData(); // We only need the NUMBER column, because there will be only one row in the result String[] projection = { Phone.NUMBER }; // Perform the query on the contact to get the NUMBER column // We don't need a selection or sort order (there's only one result for the given URI) // CAUTION: The query() method should be called from a separate thread to avoid blocking // your app's UI thread. (For simplicity of the sample, this code doesn't do that.) // Consider using CursorLoader to perform the query. Cursor cursor = getContentResolver() .query(contactUri, projection, null, null, null); cursor.moveToFirst(); // Retrieve the phone number from the NUMBER column int column = cursor.getColumnIndex(Phone.NUMBER); String number = cursor.getString(column); //do work with number here ... } </code></pre> <p>Note: I see the contacts. But after I select the Facebook imported contact, I get the crash.</p> <p>BTW: My code snippet is copied from the android tutorial exactly: <a href="http://developer.android.com/training/basics/intents/result.html" rel="noreferrer">http://developer.android.com/training/basics/intents/result.html</a></p>
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    1. CONote that for the Facebook contacts `cursor.moveToFirst()` returns false. I am not merely interested in a bandaid such as catching the exception. I know how to check `cursor.moveToFirst()`. What I need to know is how to get the numbers for those contacts.
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    2. COThis comment is unrelated to your question... Since you are using a projection, you do not need to call .getColumnIndex(...). The column index will match the index of that column in the projection string array.
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