can't retrieve user profile

Question

I want to retrieve a user's profile and it's image, but this is not working. I always get an empty cursor (cursor.getCount() == 0). Can someone help?

I have a profile with an image and a phone number on my phone but I can't read it. Permissions (read and write contacts permissions) are granted and I can retrieve all my phone contacts, but not the own profile.

Any ideas?

Code

void loadUser() {
    Uri dataUri = Uri.withAppendedPath(ContactsContract.Profile.CONTENT_URI, ContactsContract.Contacts.Data.CONTENT_DIRECTORY);
    String[] selection = new String[]
            {
                    ContactsContract.Data.RAW_CONTACT_ID,
                    ContactsContract.Data._ID,
                    ContactsContract.Profile.DISPLAY_NAME,
                    ContactsContract.Profile.PHOTO_URI,
                    ContactsContract.Profile.LOOKUP_KEY,
                    ContactsContract.Data.DATA_VERSION
            };
    Cursor cursor = MainApp.get().getContentResolver().query(
            dataUri,
            selection,
            null,
            null,
            null);

    if (cursor != null) {

        L.d("MY PROFILE - cursor size: %d", cursor.getCount());

        int rawId = cursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Data.RAW_CONTACT_ID);
        int id = cursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Data._ID);
        int name = cursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Profile.DISPLAY_NAME);
        int photoUri = cursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Profile.PHOTO_URI);
        int lookupKey = cursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Profile.LOOKUP_KEY);
        int version = cursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Data.DATA_VERSION);

        try {
            if (cursor.moveToFirst()) {
                long phRawId = cursor.getLong(rawId);
                int phId = cursor.getInt(id);
                String phName = cursor.getString(name);
                String phImageUri = cursor.getString(photoUri);
                String phLookupKey = cursor.getString(lookupKey);
                int phVersion = cursor.getInt(version);
                boolean phExists = true;

                L.d("MY PROFILE - RawID: %d, ID: %d", phRawId, phId);

                // ... profile successfully retrieved
            } else {
                L.d("MY PROFILE - cursor is EMPTY");
            }
        } finally {
            cursor.close();
        }
    } else {
        L.d("MY PROFILE - cursor = NULL");
    }
}

Additional info

I think this code worked on my S6 with android 7 but it's not working on my new S9 with android 8 on it (can't test it on my old phone anymore as it's not working anymore). So this may be an android version specific problem...

Answer 1

This appears to be bad implementation of Samsung's Contacts app, I've opened a bug report on their developer's forum here: https://developer.samsung.com/forum/thread/contacts-app-profile-is-not-accessible-via-contactscontractprofile-api/201/354874