Custom ContactsDirectoryProvider is not called for some operations

Question

I've implemented custom ContactsDirectoryProvider which works fine when Contacts or Dialer applications are searching for contacts using URIs of the form content://com.android.contacts/data/phones/filter

However when InCallUI or CallLog are trying to retrieve contact info with URis content:/contacts/phone_lookup the query method of my provider is not called.

Any advice please....

P.S. I did not implement separate sync provider maybe this is the problem?

Odoriferous

I've encountered this as well. The phone_lookup URI works fine on Nexus 5x (emulator), Pixel 2XL, LG 6. However, when I try it on a Samsung S6 or Note 8, the phone_lookup never gets invoked. It works for filtering, but the query never gets called for phone_lookup (an incoming call or call history) as they do on the other devices. – Castillo

Having the same problem. Did you find solution @Castillo ? – Dystrophy

Nope @wast... i gave up and went with the toast callerId approach for samsung devices – Castillo

Answer 1

A workaround that we are using is to use a BroadcastReceiver to listen to incoming calls:

<receiver android:name=".domain.callerid.CallerIdBroadcastReceiver">
    <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.PHONE_STATE" />
    </intent-filter>
</receiver>

Then in the onReceive method of the BroadcastReceiver you can get the incoming number:

intent.getStringExtra(TelephonyManager.EXTRA_INCOMING_NUMBER)

(This requires the READ_CALL_LOG permission starting with Android Pie)

Then you can use the incoming number to match a person and show a toast and or notification

Minnie