Comments on Tutorial For Android: Display Contact Names in Android

Hey, the Contacts.People api is deprected for qui...

2011-03-18T23:50:55.606+08:00

Hey,

the Contacts.People api is deprected for quite some time now. The new approch using the ContactsContract was introduced already at api level 5. The suggested way to get information on Contacts is now using the ContactsContract.RawContacts and ContactsContract.Contacts content provider. For more information on that topic you can take a look at http://blog.app-solut.com/2011/03/working-with-the-contactscontract-to-query-contacts-in-android/

You just saved my life. I have been following this...

2011-02-06T14:47:09.580+08:00

You just saved my life. I have been following this tutorial

http://www.softwarepassion.com/android-series-custom-listview-items-and-adapters/

on custom listviews but it's way to complicated for what I wanted to achieve. Yours is the most clear and concise tutorial on how to have custom database fields in a listview. In my case I wanted to convert "2011-11-30 05:44:12" to "30 Nov 05:44" and this tutorial did just the job. Thank you.

Does anyone know why my new contacts do not show u...

2010-05-23T01:19:11.873+08:00

Does anyone know why my new contacts do not show up alphabetically anymore on my droid? The only way to find them is to search them and I need to spell them right to find them.

bryan, sry seems the documentation is not updated....

2009-07-19T15:42:12.000+08:00

bryan, sry seems the documentation is not updated. Ill create a post on how to customize the listview when I got home from my vacation. Tnx

bryan, you can try to refer to the documentation <...

2009-07-15T23:53:09.000+08:00

bryan, you can try to refer to the documentation http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/ListActivity.html There is a topic there on how to format it on a custom way.

Do you have the XML that you used for the listview...

2009-07-15T08:40:06.000+08:00

Do you have the XML that you used for the listview, and the XML for each row item? I am looking for formatting ideas on how to make the listview presentable.

Also, I noticed that in testing my program, that if on of the columns I am displaying in the list contains a fairly long text, the remaining columns are not shown. How can I add a horizontal scroll?

Thanks.

- Bryan