Querying contacts in android using Contacts, ContactsContract

Question

I'm trying to query contacts using ContentResolver in android. There are multiple options to query like contacts, ContactsContract, CommonDataKinds, etc. But unable to decide advantages over each other. Please help me out in differentiating with each other and which one to use when.

Thanks!!

Answer 1

They all have to do with android versions, like

android.provider.ContactsContract.Contacts.People.CONTENT_URI - this only works for Android 2.0 (SDK level 5) and higher. On older versions of Android, we need to stick with the original android.provider.Contacts.CONTENT_URI .

And ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds is Container for definitions of common data types stored in the ContactsContract.Data table. If you want to know more check this.