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Best way to display Content and then return to calling Activity

I want to grab the Name and PhoneNumber vals from the Contacts Content Provider and display them to the user so that s/he can select 1..N of those Contacts. I would like this "Activity" to pop up out of the Activity which invokes it.

Is an AlertDialog the best way to tackle this? Alternatively, I could make it a separate Activity that returns to the Activity that invoked it once the user has finished making the selections...

Solution

  • Both of the methods you've proposed would work. Which is best depends on many other things about your application.