Android: How do I find the list of calls made to a particular contact?

Question

Given a contact, or a contact ID, in android, how do I get the list of calls made to or from that contact? Like the call log, but filtered to just one individual (with the possibility of multiple phone numbers, of course).

Answer 1

Generally, you don't. There is no strict relational tie between the CallLog and the ContactsContract content providers.

The CallLog does cache the display name of the caller, if that caller was a contact, and you can try to look that up, but I would expect that to be moderately unreliable, because while the ContactsContract data may change, the CallLog data will not.