Question

I am currently working on an app, where I need to insert contacts into the mobilephones contact list. Using the ContactsContract.RawContacts batch insertion, I successfully inserted contacts into the phonebook.

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/provider/ContactsContract.RawContacts.html

However when trying to update them they just add more phonenumber, instead replacing the old one.

So I came onto ContactsContract.Data where through the Contact_ID one could apparently on update replace the old phonenumber.

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/provider/ContactsContract.Data.html

My question now is, is it possible to retrieve the Contacts_ID on insertion? So that when I insert a contact by this code:

ArrayList<ContentProviderOperation> ops =
          new ArrayList<ContentProviderOperation>();
 ...
 int rawContactInsertIndex = ops.size();
 ops.add(ContentProviderOperation.newInsert(RawContacts.CONTENT_URI)
          .withValue(RawContacts.ACCOUNT_TYPE, accountType)
          .withValue(RawContacts.ACCOUNT_NAME, accountName)
          .build());

 ops.add(ContentProviderOperation.newInsert(Data.CONTENT_URI)
          .withValueBackReference(Data.RAW_CONTACT_ID, rawContactInsertIndex)
          .withValue(Data.MIMETYPE, StructuredName.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE)
          .withValue(StructuredName.DISPLAY_NAME, "Mike Sullivan")
          .build());

 getContentResolver().applyBatch(ContactsContract.AUTHORITY, ops);

I would get back the Contacts_ID?

Thank you advance for any help you can give me.

Answer 1

Better way, and you get the _ID not the RAW_ID!!

Add that as static variables:

static final String[] CONTACTS_SUMMARY_PROJECTION = new String[] {
    ContactsContract.Contacts._ID,
    ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME,
    ContactsContract.Contacts.STARRED,
    ContactsContract.Contacts.TIMES_CONTACTED,
    ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTACT_PRESENCE,
    ContactsContract.Contacts.PHOTO_ID,
    ContactsContract.Contacts.LOOKUP_KEY,
    ContactsContract.Contacts.HAS_PHONE_NUMBER,
};

Then add that after the insert:

// Displayed name
String displayed_name = "Contact's name goes here";

// Add the new contact
try
{
    context.getContentResolver().applyBatch(ContactsContract.AUTHORITY, ops);
}
catch (Exception e)
{
    e.printStackTrace();
}

String select = "(" + ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME + " == \"" +displayed_name+ "\" )";
Cursor c = context.getContentResolver().query(ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI, CONTACTS_SUMMARY_PROJECTION, select, null, ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME + " COLLATE LOCALIZED ASC");
context.startManagingCursor(c);

if (c.moveToNext())
{
    int id = new Integer(c.getString(0)).intValue();
}

It works for me.