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Android

Posted by Tom Finet
Tom Finet
7,027 Points

How to retrieve a list of contacts in android?

In my android app I wish to retrieve a list of the users contacts directly from my app and display it in a list. I have found some tutorials but they do not make things very clear to me. For example I still don not understand if this should be done in a separate thread or not.

In conclusion, can anyone provide me with a working example of how to retrieve the users contacts in android and explain to me wether or not this should be done in a background thread.

Thanks,

Happy coding guys!

1 Answer

Kourosh Raeen
Kourosh Raeen
23,733 Points

I'm not sure if you've read these pages or not but here they are:

https://developer.android.com/training/contacts-provider/retrieve-names.html https://guides.codepath.com/android/Loading-Contacts-with-Content-Providers

They are using a CursorLoader which handles the background thread creation automatically.

Tom Finet
Tom Finet
7,027 Points

Thanks thats all I needed! =)

Kourosh Raeen
Kourosh Raeen
23,733 Points

Awesome! Good luck coding your app!

Tom Finet
Tom Finet
7,027 Points

Thanks man! Good luck to you too!