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    <p>I'm not 100% sure what your sample code is supposed to do, but the following snippet should help you 'call the contacts list function, pick a contact, then return to [your] app with the contact's name'.</p> <p>There are three steps to this process.</p> <h1>1. Permissions</h1> <p>Add a permission to read contacts data to your application manifest.</p> <pre><code>&lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_CONTACTS"/&gt; </code></pre> <h1>2. Calling the Contact Picker</h1> <p>Within your Activity, create an Intent that asks the system to find an Activity that can perform a PICK action from the items in the Contacts URI.</p> <pre><code>Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK, ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI); </code></pre> <p>Call <code>startActivityForResult</code>, passing in this Intent (and a request code integer, <code>PICK_CONTACT</code> in this example). This will cause Android to launch an Activity that's registered to support <code>ACTION_PICK</code> on the <code>People.CONTENT_URI</code>, then return to this Activity when the selection is made (or canceled).</p> <pre><code>startActivityForResult(intent, PICK_CONTACT); </code></pre> <h1>3. Listening for the Result</h1> <p>Also in your Activity, override the <code>onActivityResult</code> method to listen for the return from the 'select a contact' Activity you launched in step 2. You should check that the returned request code matches the value you're expecting, and that the result code is <code>RESULT_OK</code>.</p> <p>You can get the URI of the selected contact by calling <code>getData()</code> on the <em>data</em> Intent parameter. To get the name of the selected contact you need to use that URI to create a new query and extract the name from the returned cursor.</p> <pre><code>@Override public void onActivityResult(int reqCode, int resultCode, Intent data) { super.onActivityResult(reqCode, resultCode, data); switch (reqCode) { case (PICK_CONTACT) : if (resultCode == Activity.RESULT_OK) { Uri contactData = data.getData(); Cursor c = getContentResolver().query(contactData, null, null, null, null); if (c.moveToFirst()) { String name = c.getString(c.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME)); // TODO Whatever you want to do with the selected contact name. } } break; } } </code></pre> <p><sup>Full source code: <a href="http://tutorials-android.blogspot.com/2011/11/how-to-call-android-contacts-list.html" rel="noreferrer">tutorials-android.blogspot.com (how to call android contacts list)</a>.</sup></p>
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    1. COit appears that a lot of this code has been deprecated with the recent android APIs. Does someone have an updated version?
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    2. COQ: If I want to kick off a subactivity upon picking a contact (so that we have a way to back up to the contact list again), would Intent.ACTION_PICK still work? I'm starting to think I have to roll my own cursor and use setListAdapter, like in the main question. Hmm ...
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    3. CO@Reto: I tried using your code to read contact name, but even without declaring "READ_CONTACT" permission, I am able to get the contact name; I know that's impossible, but after adding a contact via the emulator and running the code, the name was available; what could have gone wrong ?
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