Question

Im building a program that needs to add a contact to the contact list automatically at the beginning of a program. How would i go about doing this? And is it even possible?

Thanks

Answer 1

Yes it is possible. Here’s how you add Abraham Lincoln when your app starts:

public class MainActivity extends Activity {
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);


        ContentValues values = new ContentValues();

        // Add Abraham Lincoln to contacts and make him a favorite.
        values.put(People.NAME, "Abraham Lincoln");
        // 1 = the new contact is added to favorites
        // 0 = the new contact is not added to favorites
        values.put(People.STARRED, 1);

        Uri uri = getContentResolver().insert(People.CONTENT_URI, values);
    }
}

Check out Content Providers: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/providers/content-providers.html