When I was looking at the official example on the Google Android Developers site for accessing content providers in Android (http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/providers/content-providers.html) I found an outdated example to query contacts which is using deprecated fields in the Android API. As I’ve seen quite some developers who are still relying on that deprecated example to implement their functionality even when using the newer API levels I’ve decided to post an example which is using the new way suggested in the Android API.

To demonstrate the features of the new API the example App is querying all available contacts on the phone and additionally commonly used information from the contacts content provider such as the name, phone numbers, email addresses and of course the photo. Continue reading →