Chapter 5 Contact Picker Example

agitcraft · #1 (**permalink**) January 26th, 2011, 12:34 PM

Just thought I'd note a correction to some of the code in Ch. 5 for the ContactPicker example. I'm sure somebody here has already posted this but I was unable to find it.

In the onCreate function in the main ContactPicker Activity, the book has two erroneous lines.

Listed:

Code:

final Cursor c = managedQuery(data, null, null, null);

Correct:

Code:

final Cursor c = managedQuery(data, null, null, null, null); // Note the extra null

Listed:

Code:

String[] from = new String[] {People.NAME}; // Deprecated

Correct:

Code:

String[] from = new String[] {ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME};

This should remove the errors and allow you to proceed.

agitcraft · #2 (**permalink**) January 26th, 2011, 01:17 PM

Nevermind, I think. I'm still having problems. Doh.

Nop · #3 (**permalink**) August 7th, 2011, 09:15 AM

Nice info especially the replacement of the deprecated class.

But the code generate of Force Cloase on Android 2.3.3 : have the correction for the upgrade to android 2.3.3 ?

Thanks

luskan · #4 (**permalink**) November 22nd, 2011, 07:47 PM

I finally got it working by changing intent-filter to this:

<intent-filter >
<action android:name="android.intent.action.PICK" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT"/>
<data android:mimeType="vnd.android.cursor.dir/contact"/>
</intent-filter>

and when calling activity I set data like this:

intent.setData(Uri.parse("content://com.android.contacts/contacts"));

this way I am given options to choose my contact chooser or native contacts chooser.

not sure if this is entirely corect way, but at least it works

docuk · #5 (**permalink**) November 29th, 2011, 05:23 PM

Hi,

I'm just working through this as we speak so i'll verify if this works...cheers

docuk · #6 (**permalink**) November 30th, 2011, 05:42 PM

Well, i've managed to get it working despite my newb status. It's probably best if i just past the files in the following posts so that there is no confusion whatsoever...I spent a day doing background reading and crashed because i missed inserting + "/" + (see below).

P.S. I still need to reread about it all but at least it's now from the vantage point that the code actually works.

Cheers...

Code:

public class ContactPicker extends Activity {
  @Override
  public void onCreate(Bundle icicle) {
    super.onCreate(icicle);
    setContentView(R.layout.main);
    
    Intent intent = getIntent();
    String dataPath = intent.getData().toString();
    
    final Uri data = Uri.parse(dataPath);
    final Cursor c = managedQuery(data, null, null, null, null);
        
    String[] from = new String[] {ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME};
    int[]  to = new int[] { R.id.itemTextView };
        
    SimpleCursorAdapter adapter = new SimpleCursorAdapter(this,
                                                          R.layout.listitemlayout,
                                                          c,
                                                          from,
                                                          to);
    ListView lv = (ListView)findViewById(R.id.contactListView);
    lv.setAdapter(adapter);
    lv.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {
      public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int pos, long id) {
        // Move the cursor to the selected item
        c.moveToPosition(pos);
        // Extract the row id.
        int rowId = c.getInt(c.getColumnIndexOrThrow(ContactsContract.Contacts._ID));
        // Construct the result URI.
        Uri outURI = Uri.parse(data.toString() + "/" + rowId);
        Intent outData = new Intent();
        outData.setData(outURI);
        setResult(Activity.RESULT_OK, outData);
        finish();
      }
    });
  }
}

public class ContentPickerTester extends Activity {

  public static final int PICK_CONTACT = 1;
	
  @Override
  public void onCreate(Bundle icicle) {
    super.onCreate(icicle);
    setContentView(R.layout.contentpickertester);
	
    Button button = (Button)findViewById(R.id.pick_contact_button);
	      
    button.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
     public void onClick(View _view) {
        Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK,Uri.parse("content://com.android.contacts/contacts"));
        startActivityForResult(intent, PICK_CONTACT);  
      } 
    });
  }
  
  @Override 
  public void onActivityResult(int reqCode, int resCode, Intent data) {
    super.onActivityResult(reqCode, resCode, data);
        
    switch(reqCode) {
      case (PICK_CONTACT) : {
        if (resCode == Activity.RESULT_OK) {
          Uri contactData = data.getData();
          Cursor c = managedQuery(contactData, null, null, null, null);
          c.moveToFirst();
          String name = c.getString(c.getColumnIndexOrThrow(ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME));
          TextView tv = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.selected_contact_textview);
          tv.setText(name);
        }
        break;
      }
    }
  }
}

<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
      package="com.paad.contactpicker"
      android:versionCode="1"
      android:versionName="1.0">
    <application android:icon="@drawable/icon" android:label="@string/app_name">
        <activity android:name=".ContactPicker"
                  android:label="@string/app_name">
            <intent-filter>
              <action android:name="android.intent.action.PICK"></action>
              <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT"></category>
              <data android:mimeType="vnd.android.cursor.dir/contact"/>
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>
        <activity android:name=".ContentPickerTester" 
                android:label="Contact Picker Test">
          <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
          </intent-filter>
        </activity>
    </application>
    <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="7" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_CONTACTS"/>
</manifest>

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