Can We get add contact intent with contact picker?

Question

I want to use the contact picker intent to pick the contacts. Also I want the function of adding contacts in my activity. There is an intent to add contacts, nut I want to know that can we use this both together as used in the contacts app in android?

Like this:

Can We use contact picker as well as add contact intent? Thank you..

Answer 1

No.

ACTION_PICK will allow you to pick a contact. However, there is no way for you to request that the contact-picker UI offer an add-contact option. Furthermore, there is no requirement for a contact-picker UI to even have an add-contact option.

If you want to allow the user to add a contact, have your own UI trigger an ACTION_INSERT or ACTION_INSERT_OR_EDIT activity:

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package com.commonsware.android.inserter;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.provider.ContactsContract.Contacts;
import android.provider.ContactsContract.Intents.Insert;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.EditText;

public class ContactsInserter extends Activity {
  @Override
  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.main);

    Button btn=(Button)findViewById(R.id.insert);

    btn.setOnClickListener(onInsert);
  }

  View.OnClickListener onInsert=new View.OnClickListener() {
    public void onClick(View v) {
      EditText fld=(EditText)findViewById(R.id.name);
      String name=fld.getText().toString();

      fld=(EditText)findViewById(R.id.phone);

      String phone=fld.getText().toString();
      Intent i=new Intent(Intent.ACTION_INSERT_OR_EDIT);

      i.setType(Contacts.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE);
      i.putExtra(Insert.NAME, name);
      i.putExtra(Insert.PHONE, phone);
      startActivity(i);
    }
  };
}

(from this old sample project)