Get a URI for a RawContact photo in Android

Question

I know I can get the URI of a contact's photo using:

Uri person = ContentUris.withAppendedId(Contacts.CONTENT_URI, contactId);
Uri photoUri = Uri.withAppendedPath(person, Contacts.Photo.CONTENT_DIRECTORY);

Is there a way to do the same for a RawContact?

I've tried:

Uri person = ContentUris.withAppendedId(RawContacts.CONTENT_URI, rawContactId);
Uri photoUri = Uri.withAppendedPath(person, Contacts.Photo.CONTENT_DIRECTORY);

But it doesn't work...

The reason I need a URI instead of the actual blob is because the code is in an AppWidget and seems like there a very hard limit of a couple of megs when passing data from a widget to the launcher, so I need to use setImageViewUri and not setImageViewBitmap.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Here is the solution to your problem. Solution

I also had the very same problem and after digging around and reading Android's source code I got it. It's probably to late by now (for you) but here it is anyway.

public InputStream getBitmapFromUri(String rawContactId) throws FileNotFoundException {

    final Uri photoUri = Uri.withAppendedPath(
            ContentUris.withAppendedId(RawContacts.CONTENT_URI, Long.valueOf(rawContactId)), RawContacts.DisplayPhoto.CONTENT_DIRECTORY);
    final InputStream imageStream = contentResolver.openInputStream(photoUri);

    return imageStream;
}