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I want to store some additional data for each contact on Android.
I would have in mind creating my own database table for it, and then bind them to the real contact via a unique id.
I am wondering if Android has built in functionality to store additional data against contacts?
EDIT 2
Is there a defined field for birthday of the contact?
How do I store a date field?
Where is
ContactsContract.Dataclass declares Content URI to store additional contact information ( phones, emails and IM statuses for example are all implemented in similar ways)Take a look at
ContactsContract.CommonDataKindsfor an example of implementation.Basically you’ve got
CONTACT_ID,MIME_TYPEand data columns to store data you want