adding a contact

[derez]

Is it possible to add a contact to the phone's contacts list ? phone intent is only reading it.

 

[derez]

I found this Hari's Blog , may be with this code it can be done ?

 

[Erel]

You can read contacts with a Contacts object. Currently it is read-only. So adding new contacts is not possible.

 

[optimist]

I want to support this wish.
Writable access to contacts would be interesting.

TIA
Michael

 

[aklisiewicz]

I would like to ba able to add records to contacts to,...
implementation would be more than welcomed !

Arthur

 

[optimist]

You can read contacts with a Contacts object. Currently it is read-only. So adding new contacts is not possible.

Have a lock at my solution. It is possible now
http://www.b4x.com/forum/basic4android-share-your-creations/9990-solution-create-contact.html

Suggestions welcome.

 

[peacemaker]

Thanks to optimist, but...

How to start the custom intent (with pre-selected "putExtras" fields) for adding a contact ?

Noting, for example

Intent addContactIntent = new Intent(Contacts.Intents.Insert.ACTION, Contacts.People.CONTENT_URI);
addContactIntent.putExtra(Contacts.Intents.Insert.NAME, "Jean-Claude"); // an example, there is other data available
startActivity(addContactIntent)

This try does not work :-

Dim i As Intent
i.Initialize("android.intent.action.INSERT", "vnd.android.cursor.dir/contact_extensions")
StartActivity(i)

and gives "No activity found to handle intent"

 

[peacemaker]

i.Initialize("com.android.contacts.action.SHOW_OR_CREATE_CONTACT","tel:12345")

seems, is helping....
needto check.
and understand how to make pre-selected fields