Question

I’d like the ability to add a contact to the user’s contacts with a contact name (easy enough), a phone number, but also a custom label for that phone number as supported in ICS. For example, I might like to add “John Doe” with the phone number “xxx-xxx-xxxx” as custom type “Blackberry”. Is this granularity possible?

Answer 1

This can be done with an Intent as seen below. (Bonus: You don’t have to ask for read/write contacts permissions!) The specific fields you’re interested in are ContactsContract.Intents.Insert.PHONE_TYPE and ContactsContract.Intents.Insert.SECONDARY_PHONE_TYPE

private void addContact(Activity activity)
{
    Intent intent = new Intent(ContactsContract.Intents.Insert.ACTION);
    intent.setType(ContactsContract.RawContacts.CONTENT_TYPE);
    intent.putExtra(ContactsContract.Intents.Insert.NAME, "John Smith");
    intent.putExtra(ContactsContract.Intents.Insert.EMAIL, "[e-mail]");
    intent.putExtra(ContactsContract.Intents.Insert.PHONE, "555-555-5555");
    intent.putExtra(ContactsContract.Intents.Insert.PHONE_TYPE, "Blackberry");
    intent.putExtra(ContactsContract.Intents.Insert.SECONDARY_PHONE, 555-444-3333);
    intent.putExtra(ContactsContract.Intents.Insert.SECONDARY_PHONE_TYPE, "School Phone");
    activity.startActivity(Intent.createChooser(intent, ""));
}