Question

I am having a problem getting a contact photo, the kind you see in the messaging app and new gmail notification. I have looked at a few example codes but nothing has worked for me, this is what I currently have

this should get the photo uri and turn it into a bitmap image to use or at least it seems

public static Bitmap getContactImage(long id,Context context){
    InputStream input = getPhoto(id,context);
    if(input == null){
        return null;
    }
    return BitmapFactory.decodeStream(input);
}

public static InputStream getPhoto(long contactId,Context context){
    Uri contactUri = ContentUris.withAppendedId(Contacts.CONTENT_URI, contactId);
    Uri photoUri = Uri.withAppendedPath(contactUri, Contacts.Photo.CONTENT_DIRECTORY);
    InputStream in = null;
    try{
        in = context.getContentResolver().openInputStream(photoUri);
    }catch(FileNotFoundException e){
        Log.d(TAG, e.toString());
    }
    return in;
}

and this is how I call

long contactID = 0;
                Bitmap image = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(context.getResources(),R.drawable.ic_contact_picture);
                Cursor contact = context.getContentResolver().query(Data.CONTENT_URI,new String[] {Data.CONTACT_ID},Email.ADDRESS  + "='" + from + "'",null,null);
                if(contact.moveToFirst() && contact != null){
                    contactID = contact.getLong(0);
                    image = getContactImage(contactID,context);
                }

I get the contact id fine (checked by searching the number for the person querying against) but then it does not find the contact photo. I know there is a photo because I am testing it against myself to make sure and I have a contact photo so I dont know what else I should do.

I always find navigating the contact provider very troublesome because there is so much to it.

Answer 1

I got it, I did a query against the RAW_CONTACT_ID with the MIMETYPE and that gave me the photo I was looking for

Cursor p = context.getContentResolver().query(Data.CONTENT_URI,new String[] {Photo.PHOTO},
                Data.RAW_CONTACT_ID + "=" + contactId + " AND " + Data.MIMETYPE + "='" + Photo.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE+"'"
                ,null,null);