Call contacts app

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1

Hi,
I want to be able to open the on-phone contacts app by clicking on a button in my sketch.
I am mainly looking for packages to getting the code of the first answer to work.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5787088/android-launching-contacts-application

I am used to working with the android permissions and already allowed the access to storage and to read and write of contacts(even though I don’t need it).

Thanks in advance

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If you really want to keep it simple; just names and phone numbers.
Tested with APDE Kitkat 4.4 and Lollipop 5.1 using permission
READ_CONTACTS
You know how to place Android buttons?
If not see templates on my repo here.

import android.database.Cursor;
import android.content.ContentResolver;
import android.provider.ContactsContract;
import android.support.v4.app.ActivityCompat;
import android.app.Activity;

Activity act;

void setup() {
  act = this.getActivity(); 
  Cursor phones = act.getContentResolver().query(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI, null, null, null, null);
  while (phones.moveToNext()) {
    String contactName=phones.getString(phones.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.DISPLAY_NAME));
    String contactNumber = phones.getString(phones.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER));
  print(contactName+"  ");
  println(contactNumber);
  }
  phones.close();
}
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3

Wow, exactly what I was looking for.
Thanks

4

Do you want to dial the number also?

5

Yes, I want to be able to dial a number and send sms.

6

Are you going to implement all this gigantic amount of code?

import android.database.Cursor;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.net.Uri;

void setup() {
  Uri number = Uri.parse("tel:123456789");
  Intent callIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_DIAL, number);
  startActivity(callIntent);
}
7

I started copy-pasting your code and then got this error:
image
Do you know how to fix this?

8

And if you comment this import?
What android version are you using?

9

commented the error and ran the code, works fine, thanks.
Android version is 6.0.1, so rather old

10

Here is how to send a msg.
I, unfortunately, could not test it because I get the warning “You have no credits.” :smiley:
If you have some time please cheque my templates on repo for errors.
Needs permission SEND_SMS

import android.database.Cursor;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.net.Uri;
import android.telephony.SmsManager;

String phone_number = "81984763036";
String send_message = "Happy birthday";

void setup() {
  try {
    SmsManager sms = SmsManager.getDefault(); 
    sms.sendTextMessage(phone_number, null, send_message, null, null);
  } 
  catch (Exception e) {
    println ("Sms not Send");
    e.printStackTrace();
  }
}
11

Thanks again for your help.

I will but I’m probably not gonna be a lot of help.