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• Answer:

  According to Google's official documentation (https://developers.google.com/google-apps/contacts/v3/#retrieving_a_contacts_photo), this is how you retrieve contact image using the Contacts API: Retrieving a contact's photo To retrieve a contact's photo, send an authorized GET request to the contact's photo link URL. The URL is of the form: https://www.google.com/m8/feeds/photos/media/%7BuserEmail%7D/%7BcontactId%7D With the appropriate values in place of userEmail and contactID. Note: The special userEmail value default can be used to refer to the authenticated user. The photo link can be retrieved from the contact entry returned by the API: <entry xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'     xmlns:gContact='http://schemas.google.com/contact/2008'     xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005'     gd:etag='<var>contactEtag</var>'>   <id>     http://www.google.com/m8/feeds/contacts/<var>userEmail</var>/base/<var>contactId</var>   </id>   ...   <title>Full Name</title>   <gd:name>     <gd:fullName>Full Name</gd:fullName>   </gd:name>   <link rel='http://schemas.google.com/contacts/2008/rel#photo' type='image/*'     href='https://www.google.com/m8/feeds/photos/media/<var>userEmail</var>/<var>contactId</var>'     gd:etag='<var>photoEtag</var>'/>   <link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml'     href='https://www.google.com/m8/feeds/contacts/<var>userEmail</var>/full/<var>contactId</var>'/>   ... </entry> Note: If a contact does not have a photo, then the photo link element has no gd:etag attribute. Upon success, the server responds with an HTTP 200 OK status code and the photo data bytes. I went through other websites too and came across this blog(http://thinkandroid.wordpress.com/2009/12/30/handling-contact-photos-all-api-levels/). It explains how to handle contact photos for API levels 5/6 (a little outdated?). I am showing the code written there below: Loading Contact Photos: For API LEVEL 5 / 6 the code looks like: public static Bitmap loadContactPhoto(ContentResolver cr, long id) {     Uri uri = ContentUris.withAppendedId(ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI, id);     InputStream input = ContactsContract.Contacts.openContactPhotoInputStream(cr, uri);     if (input == null) {          return getBitmapFromURL("http://thinkandroid.wordpress.com");      }     return BitmapFactory.decodeStream(input); } Now, for setting photos, things get slightly more complicated: For API LEVEL 5 / 6 the code looks like: public static void setContactPhoto(ContentResolver c, byte[] bytes, long personId) {     ContentValues values = new ContentValues();     int photoRow = -1;     String where = ContactsContract.Data.RAW_CONTACT_ID + " = " + personId + " AND " + ContactsContract.Data.MIMETYPE + "=='" + ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Photo.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE + "'";     Cursor cursor = c.query(ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI, null, where, null, null);     int idIdx = cursor.getColumnIndexOrThrow(ContactsContract.Data._ID);     if (cursor.moveToFirst()) {         photoRow = cursor.getInt(idIdx);     }     cursor.close();     values.put(ContactsContract.Data.RAW_CONTACT_ID, personId);     values.put(ContactsContract.Data.IS_SUPER_PRIMARY, 1);     values.put(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Photo.PHOTO, bytes);     values.put(ContactsContract.Data.MIMETYPE, ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Photo.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE);     if (photoRow >= 0) {         c.update(ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI, values, ContactsContract.Data._ID + " = " + photoRow, null);     } else {         c.insert(ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI, values);     } } Disclaimer: I have never used the Google Contacts API before, neither have I tested the code given in these websites. So, I cannot guarantee the working of the code above. But this should help you get started on your problem.