How to get details from a user-picked contact in Android without READ_CONTACTS-permission? -


according android documentation possible read details user-selected contact without read_contacts permission. should possible using contacts uri, resulting "onactivityresult"-call. querying uri content resolver gives me access basic contact information though, described in contactscontract.contacts. i'm trying using (fairly standard) contact-picker code:

static final int request_select_contact = 1;  public void selectcontact() {     // start activity user pick contact     intent intent = new intent(intent.action_pick);     intent.settype(contactscontract.contacts.content_type);     if (intent.resolveactivity(getpackagemanager()) != null) {         startactivityforresult(intent, request_select_contact);     } }  protected void onactivityresult(int requestcode, int resultcode, intent data) {     if(requestcode == request_select_contact && resultcode == result_ok) {         // uri , query content provider contact data         contacturi = data.getdata();         cursor cursor = getcontentresolver().query(contacturi, null, null, null, null);         // if cursor returned valid, retrieve contact's details         if (cursor != null && cursor.movetofirst()) {             int numberindex = cursor.getcolumnindex(phone.number);             int typeindex = cursor.getcolumnindex(phone.type);             int idindex = cursor.getcolumnindex(contactscontract.contacts._id);             int nameindex =cursor.getcolumnindex(contactscontract.contacts.display_name);             string number = cursor.getstring(numberindex); // not accessible way             string type= cursor.getstring(typeindex); // not accessible way             string id = cursor.getstring(idindex); // accessible way             string name = cursor.getstring(nameindex); // accessible way         }     } } 

as example contact data should somehow accessible i'm using phone number , type. index of these results in -1 not present in cursor. yet somehow need them, i'm stuck on how that. appreciated!


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