How can I use a button to retrieve a phone 'number' from contacts?

Use Button to Open Contacts to Retrieve Phone Number and Print to String

• So I do some android development on and off, and right now I'm a bit rusty. Basically all I want to do is have the user press a button and then that brings them to choose a contact, and then that prints that to a string. I have onCick running as such @Override public void onClick(View paramView) { Main.this.phone = Main.this with other things attached to it. So how would I load contacts as I expect to. I can provide more information as needed.

• Answer:

  The pattern should be: onClick() { intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK); intent.setData(null); intent.setType(null); startActivityForResult(intent,0); } onActivityResult(int requestcode, int resultcode, Intent returnIntent) { Uri resultUri = returnIntent.getData(); } The intent you send out will cause the contacts app to display a picker, from which the user can choose a contact. The content URI of that contact is returned to you in onActivityResult(), in another intent. You can use that to look for data for that particular contact.