How do I load a contact Photo?

Question

I'm having trouble loading a photo for a contact in Android. I've googled for an answer, but so far have come up empty. Does anyone have an example of querying for a Contact, then loading the Photo?

So, given a contactUri which comes from an Activity result called using

startActivityForResult(new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK,ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI),PICK_CONTACT_REQUEST) 

is:

content://com.android.contacts/data/1557

The loadContact(..) works fine. However when I call the getPhoto(...) method, I get a null value for the photo InputStream. It is also confusing because the URI values are different. The contactPhotoUri evaluates to:

content://com.android.contacts/contacts/1557

See the comments inline in the code below.

 class ContactAccessor {

    /**
     * Retrieves the contact information.
     */
    public ContactInfo loadContact(ContentResolver contentResolver, Uri contactUri) {

        //contactUri --> content://com.android.contacts/data/1557

        ContactInfo contactInfo = new ContactInfo();

        // Load the display name for the specified person
        Cursor cursor = contentResolver.query(contactUri,
                                            new String[]{Contacts._ID, 
                                                         Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME, 
                                                         Phone.NUMBER,
                                                         Contacts.PHOTO_ID}, null, null, null);
        try {
            if (cursor.moveToFirst()) {
                contactInfo.setId(cursor.getLong(0));
                contactInfo.setDisplayName(cursor.getString(1));
                contactInfo.setPhoneNumber(cursor.getString(2));
            }
        } finally {
            cursor.close();
        }        
        return contactInfo;  // <-- returns info for contact
    }

    public Bitmap getPhoto(ContentResolver contentResolver, Long contactId) {
        Uri contactPhotoUri = ContentUris.withAppendedId(Contacts.CONTENT_URI, contactId);

        // contactPhotoUri --> content://com.android.contacts/contacts/1557

        InputStream photoDataStream = Contacts.openContactPhotoInputStream(contentResolver,contactPhotoUri); // <-- always null
        Bitmap photo = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(photoDataStream);
        return photo;
    }

    public class ContactInfo {

        private long id;
        private String displayName;
        private String phoneNumber;
        private Uri photoUri;

        public void setDisplayName(String displayName) {
            this.displayName = displayName;
        }

        public String getDisplayName() {
            return displayName;
        }

        public void setPhoneNumber(String phoneNumber) {
            this.phoneNumber = phoneNumber;
        }

        public String getPhoneNumber() {
            return phoneNumber;
        }

        public Uri getPhotoUri() {
            return this.photoUri;
        }

        public void setPhotoUri(Uri photoUri) {
            this.photoUri = photoUri;
        }

        public long getId() {
            return this.id;
        }

        public void setId(long id) {
            this.id = id;
        }

    }
}

Clearly, I'm doing something wrong here, but I can't seem to figure out what the problem is. Thanks.

Answer 1

This works for me:

public static Bitmap loadContactPhoto(ContentResolver cr, long  id) {
    Uri uri = ContentUris.withAppendedId(ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI, id);
    InputStream input = ContactsContract.Contacts.openContactPhotoInputStream(cr, uri);
    if (input == null) {
        return null;
    }
    return BitmapFactory.decodeStream(input);
}