Provides convenience classes to access the content providers supplied by Android.
Android ships with a number of content providers that store common data such as contact informations, calendar information, and media files. These classes provide simplified methods of adding or retrieving data from these content providers.
For information about how to use a content provider, see the Content Providers developer guide.
| BaseColumns | |
| CalendarContract.AttendeesColumns | Columns from the Attendees table that other tables join into themselves. |
| CalendarContract.CalendarAlertsColumns | |
| CalendarContract.CalendarCacheColumns | |
| CalendarContract.CalendarColumns | Columns specific to the Calendars Uri that other Uris can query. |
| CalendarContract.CalendarSyncColumns | Generic columns for use by sync adapters. |
| CalendarContract.ColorsColumns | |
| CalendarContract.EventDaysColumns | |
| CalendarContract.EventsColumns | Columns from the Events table that other tables join into themselves. |
| CalendarContract.ExtendedPropertiesColumns | |
| CalendarContract.RemindersColumns | |
| CalendarContract.SyncColumns | Columns for Sync information used by Calendars and Events tables. |
| Contacts.ContactMethodsColumns |
This interface was deprecated
in API level 5.
see ContactsContract
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| Contacts.ExtensionsColumns |
This interface was deprecated
in API level 5.
see ContactsContract
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| Contacts.GroupsColumns |
This interface was deprecated
in API level 5.
see ContactsContract
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| Contacts.OrganizationColumns |
This interface was deprecated
in API level 5.
see ContactsContract
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| Contacts.PeopleColumns |
This interface was deprecated
in API level 5.
see ContactsContract
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| Contacts.PhonesColumns |
This interface was deprecated
in API level 5.
see ContactsContract
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| Contacts.PhotosColumns |
This interface was deprecated
in API level 5.
see ContactsContract
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| Contacts.PresenceColumns |
This interface was deprecated
in API level 5.
see ContactsContract
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| Contacts.SettingsColumns |
This interface was deprecated
in API level 5.
see ContactsContract
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| ContactsContract.BaseSyncColumns | Generic columns for use by sync adapters. |
| ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.BaseTypes | The base types that all "Typed" data kinds support. |
| ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.CommonColumns | Columns common across the specific types. |
| ContactsContract.ContactNameColumns | Contact name and contact name metadata columns in the RawContacts table. |
| ContactsContract.ContactOptionsColumns |
Columns of ContactsContract.Contacts that track the user's
preferences for, or interactions with, the contact.
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| ContactsContract.ContactsColumns |
Columns of ContactsContract.Contacts that refer to intrinsic
properties of the contact, as opposed to the user-specified options
found in ContactsContract.ContactOptionsColumns.
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| ContactsContract.ContactStatusColumns | |
| ContactsContract.DataColumns | Columns in the Data table. |
| ContactsContract.DataColumnsWithJoins |
Combines all columns returned by ContactsContract.Data table queries.
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| ContactsContract.DataUsageStatColumns | Columns in the Data_Usage_Stat table |
| ContactsContract.DeletedContactsColumns | |
| ContactsContract.DisplayNameSources | Types of data used to produce the display name for a contact. |
| ContactsContract.FullNameStyle | Constants for various styles of combining given name, family name etc into a full name. |
| ContactsContract.GroupsColumns | |
| ContactsContract.PhoneLookupColumns | |
| ContactsContract.PhoneticNameStyle | Constants for various styles of capturing the pronunciation of a person's name. |
| ContactsContract.PresenceColumns |
Additional data mixed in with ContactsContract.StatusColumns to link
back to specific _ID entries.
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| ContactsContract.RawContactsColumns | |
| ContactsContract.SettingsColumns | |
| ContactsContract.StatusColumns | Social status update columns. |
| ContactsContract.SyncColumns | Columns that appear when each row of a table belongs to a specific account, including sync information that an account may need. |
| MediaStore.Audio.AlbumColumns | Columns representing an album |
| MediaStore.Audio.ArtistColumns | Columns representing an artist |
| MediaStore.Audio.AudioColumns | Columns for audio file that show up in multiple tables. |
| MediaStore.Audio.GenresColumns | Columns representing an audio genre |
| MediaStore.Audio.PlaylistsColumns | Columns representing a playlist |
| MediaStore.Files.FileColumns | Fields for master table for all media files. |
| MediaStore.Images.ImageColumns | |
| MediaStore.MediaColumns | Common fields for most MediaProvider tables |
| MediaStore.Video.VideoColumns | |
| OpenableColumns | These are standard columns for openable URIs. |
| SyncStateContract.Columns | |
| Telephony.BaseMmsColumns | Base columns for tables that contain MMSs. |
| Telephony.CanonicalAddressesColumns | Columns for the "canonical_addresses" table used by MMS and SMS. |
| Telephony.TextBasedSmsColumns | Base columns for tables that contain text-based SMSs. |
| Telephony.ThreadsColumns | Columns for the "threads" table used by MMS and SMS. |
| AlarmClock | The AlarmClock provider contains an Intent action and extras that can be used to start an Activity to set a new alarm or timer in an alarm clock application. |
| BlockedNumberContract |
The contract between the blockednumber provider and applications. |
| BlockedNumberContract.BlockedNumbers | Constants to interact with the blocked numbers list. |
| Browser | |
| CalendarContract |
The contract between the calendar provider and applications. |
| CalendarContract.Attendees | Fields and helpers for interacting with Attendees. |
| CalendarContract.CalendarAlerts | Fields and helpers for accessing calendar alerts information. |
| CalendarContract.CalendarCache | CalendarCache stores some settings for calendar including the current time zone for the instances. |
| CalendarContract.CalendarEntity | Class that represents a Calendar Entity. |
| CalendarContract.Calendars | Constants and helpers for the Calendars table, which contains details for individual calendars. |
| CalendarContract.Colors | Fields for accessing colors available for a given account. |
| CalendarContract.EventDays | Fields and helpers for querying for a list of days that contain events. |
| CalendarContract.Events | Constants and helpers for the Events table, which contains details for individual events. |
| CalendarContract.EventsEntity | Class that represents an Event Entity. |
| CalendarContract.ExtendedProperties | Fields for accessing the Extended Properties. |
| CalendarContract.Instances | Fields and helpers for interacting with Instances. |
| CalendarContract.Reminders | Fields and helpers for accessing reminders for an event. |
| CalendarContract.SyncState | A table provided for sync adapters to use for storing private sync state data. |
| CallLog | The CallLog provider contains information about placed and received calls. |
| CallLog.Calls | Contains the recent calls. |
| Contacts |
This class was deprecated
in API level 5.
The APIs have been superseded by ContactsContract. The newer APIs allow
access multiple accounts and support aggregation of similar contacts. These APIs continue to
work but will only return data for the first Google account created, which matches the original
behavior.
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| Contacts.ContactMethods |
This class was deprecated
in API level 5.
see ContactsContract
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| Contacts.Extensions |
This class was deprecated
in API level 5.
see ContactsContract
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| Contacts.GroupMembership |
This class was deprecated
in API level 5.
see ContactsContract
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| Contacts.Groups |
This class was deprecated
in API level 5.
see ContactsContract
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| Contacts.Intents |
This class was deprecated
in API level 5.
see ContactsContract
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| Contacts.Intents.Insert |
This class was deprecated
in API level 5.
see ContactsContract
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| Contacts.Intents.UI | This class was deprecated in API level 5. Do not use. This is not supported. |
| Contacts.Organizations |
This class was deprecated
in API level 5.
see ContactsContract
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| Contacts.People |
This class was deprecated
in API level 5.
see ContactsContract
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| Contacts.People.ContactMethods |
This class was deprecated
in API level 5.
see ContactsContract
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| Contacts.People.Extensions |
This class was deprecated
in API level 5.
see ContactsContract
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| Contacts.People.Phones |
This class was deprecated
in API level 5.
see ContactsContract
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| Contacts.Phones |
This class was deprecated
in API level 5.
see ContactsContract
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| Contacts.Photos |
This class was deprecated
in API level 5.
see ContactsContract
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| Contacts.Settings |
This class was deprecated
in API level 5.
see ContactsContract
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| ContactsContract |
The contract between the contacts provider and applications. |
| ContactsContract.AggregationExceptions |
Constants for the contact aggregation exceptions table, which contains aggregation rules overriding those used by automatic aggregation. |
| ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds |
Container for definitions of common data types stored in the ContactsContract.Data
table.
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| ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Callable |
Convenient functionalities for "callable" data. |
| ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Contactables |
A special class of data items, used to refer to types of data that can be used to attempt
to start communicating with a person (ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone and ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email).
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| ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email |
A data kind representing an email address. |
| ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Event |
A data kind representing an event. |
| ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.GroupMembership |
Group Membership. |
| ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Identity | A data kind representing an Identity related to the contact. |
| ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Im |
A data kind representing an IM address
You can use all columns defined for |
| ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Nickname |
A data kind representing the contact's nickname. |
| ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Note |
Notes about the contact. |
| ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Organization |
A data kind representing an organization. |
| ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone |
A data kind representing a telephone number. |
| ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Photo |
A data kind representing a photo for the contact. |
| ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Relation |
A data kind representing a relation. |
| ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.SipAddress |
A data kind representing a SIP address for the contact. |
| ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredName | A data kind representing the contact's proper name. |
| ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredPostal |
A data kind representing a postal addresses. |
| ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Website |
A data kind representing a website related to the contact. |
| ContactsContract.Contacts | Constants for the contacts table, which contains a record per aggregate of raw contacts representing the same person. |
| ContactsContract.Contacts.AggregationSuggestions |
A read-only sub-directory of a single contact aggregate that contains all aggregation suggestions (other contacts). |
| ContactsContract.Contacts.AggregationSuggestions.Builder | A convenience builder for aggregation suggestion content URIs. |
| ContactsContract.Contacts.Data |
A sub-directory of a single contact that contains all of the constituent raw contact
ContactsContract.Data rows.
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| ContactsContract.Contacts.Entity |
A sub-directory of a contact that contains all of its
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| ContactsContract.Contacts.Photo | A read-only sub-directory of a single contact that contains the contact's primary photo. |
| ContactsContract.Data |
Constants for the data table, which contains data points tied to a raw contact. |
| ContactsContract.DataUsageFeedback |
API allowing applications to send usage information for each |
| ContactsContract.DeletedContacts | Constants for the deleted contact table. |
| ContactsContract.Directory | A Directory represents a contacts corpus, e.g. |
| ContactsContract.DisplayPhoto | Helper class for accessing full-size photos by photo file ID. |
| ContactsContract.Groups | Constants for the groups table. |
| ContactsContract.Intents |
Contains helper classes used to create or manage Intents
that involve contacts.
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| ContactsContract.Intents.Insert |
Convenience class that contains string constants used
to create contact Intents.
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| ContactsContract.PhoneLookup | A table that represents the result of looking up a phone number, for example for caller ID. |
| ContactsContract.PinnedPositions |
Contact-specific information about whether or not a contact has been pinned by the user at a particular position within the system contact application's user interface. |
| ContactsContract.Presence | This class was deprecated in API level 5. This old name was never meant to be made public. Do not use. |
| ContactsContract.Profile |
Constants for the user's profile data, which is represented as a single contact on the device that represents the user. |
| ContactsContract.ProfileSyncState | A table provided for sync adapters to use for storing private sync state data for the user's personal profile. |
| ContactsContract.ProviderStatus | API for inquiring about the general status of the provider. |
| ContactsContract.QuickContact |
Helper methods to display QuickContact dialogs that display all the information belonging to
a specific Contacts entry.
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| ContactsContract.RawContacts | Constants for the raw contacts table, which contains one row of contact information for each person in each synced account. |
| ContactsContract.RawContacts.Data |
A sub-directory of a single raw contact that contains all of its
ContactsContract.Data rows.
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| ContactsContract.RawContacts.DisplayPhoto |
A sub-directory of a single raw contact that represents its primary display photo. |
| ContactsContract.RawContacts.Entity |
A sub-directory of a single raw contact that contains all of its
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| ContactsContract.RawContactsEntity |
Constants for the raw contacts entities table, which can be thought of as an outer join of the raw_contacts table with the data table. |
| ContactsContract.SearchSnippets |
Additional column returned by
Contacts.CONTENT_FILTER_URI explaining
why the filter matched the contact.
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| ContactsContract.Settings |
Contacts-specific settings for various |
| ContactsContract.StatusUpdates |
A status update is linked to a |
| ContactsContract.SyncState | A table provided for sync adapters to use for storing private sync state data for contacts. |
| DocumentsContract | Defines the contract between a documents provider and the platform. |
| DocumentsContract.Document |
Constants related to a document, including Cursor column names
and flags.
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| DocumentsContract.Root |
Constants related to a root of documents, including Cursor column
names and flags.
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| DocumentsProvider | Base class for a document provider. |
| LiveFolders |
This class was deprecated
in API level 14.
Live folders are no longer supported by Android. These have been
replaced by the new
AppWidget Collection
APIs introduced in HONEYCOMB. These provide
all of the features of live folders plus many more. The use of live folders is greatly
discouraged because of security issues they introduce -- publishing a live folder requires
making all data show for the live folder available to all applications with no
permissions protecting it.
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| MediaStore | The Media provider contains meta data for all available media on both internal and external storage devices. |
| MediaStore.Audio | Container for all audio content. |
| MediaStore.Audio.Albums | Contains artists for audio files |
| MediaStore.Audio.Artists | Contains artists for audio files |
| MediaStore.Audio.Artists.Albums | Sub-directory of each artist containing all albums on which a song by the artist appears. |
| MediaStore.Audio.Genres | Contains all genres for audio files |
| MediaStore.Audio.Genres.Members | Sub-directory of each genre containing all members. |
| MediaStore.Audio.Media | |
| MediaStore.Audio.Playlists | Contains playlists for audio files |
| MediaStore.Audio.Playlists.Members | Sub-directory of each playlist containing all members. |
| MediaStore.Audio.Radio | |
| MediaStore.Files | Media provider table containing an index of all files in the media storage, including non-media files. |
| MediaStore.Images | Contains meta data for all available images. |
| MediaStore.Images.Media | |
| MediaStore.Images.Thumbnails | This class allows developers to query and get two kinds of thumbnails: MINI_KIND: 512 x 384 thumbnail MICRO_KIND: 96 x 96 thumbnail |
| MediaStore.Video | |
| MediaStore.Video.Media | |
| MediaStore.Video.Thumbnails | This class allows developers to query and get two kinds of thumbnails: MINI_KIND: 512 x 384 thumbnail MICRO_KIND: 96 x 96 thumbnail |
| SearchRecentSuggestions |
This is a utility class providing access to
SearchRecentSuggestionsProvider.
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| Settings | The Settings provider contains global system-level device preferences. |
| Settings.Global | Global system settings, containing preferences that always apply identically to all defined users. |
| Settings.NameValueTable | Common base for tables of name/value settings. |
| Settings.Secure | Secure system settings, containing system preferences that applications can read but are not allowed to write. |
| Settings.System | System settings, containing miscellaneous system preferences. |
| SyncStateContract | The ContentProvider contract for associating data with ana data array account. |
| SyncStateContract.Constants | |
| SyncStateContract.Helpers | |
| Telephony | The Telephony provider contains data related to phone operation, specifically SMS and MMS messages and access to the APN list, including the MMSC to use. |
| Telephony.Carriers | Carriers class contains information about APNs, including MMSC information. |
| Telephony.Mms | Contains all MMS messages. |
| Telephony.Mms.Addr | Contains address information for an MMS message. |
| Telephony.Mms.Draft | Contains all MMS messages in the MMS app drafts folder. |
| Telephony.Mms.Inbox | Contains all MMS messages in the MMS app inbox. |
| Telephony.Mms.Intents | Intents class. |
| Telephony.Mms.Outbox | Contains all MMS messages in the MMS app outbox. |
| Telephony.Mms.Part | Contains message parts. |
| Telephony.Mms.Rate | Message send rate table. |
| Telephony.Mms.Sent | Contains all MMS messages in the MMS app sent folder. |
| Telephony.MmsSms | Contains all MMS and SMS messages. |
| Telephony.MmsSms.PendingMessages | Contains pending messages info. |
| Telephony.Sms | Contains all text-based SMS messages. |
| Telephony.Sms.Conversations | Contains all sent text-based SMS messages in the SMS app. |
| Telephony.Sms.Draft | Contains all sent text-based SMS messages in the SMS app. |
| Telephony.Sms.Inbox | Contains all text-based SMS messages in the SMS app inbox. |
| Telephony.Sms.Intents | Contains constants for SMS related Intents that are broadcast. |
| Telephony.Sms.Outbox | Contains all pending outgoing text-based SMS messages. |
| Telephony.Sms.Sent | Contains all sent text-based SMS messages in the SMS app. |
| Telephony.Threads | Helper functions for the "threads" table used by MMS and SMS. |
| UserDictionary | A provider of user defined words for input methods to use for predictive text input. |
| UserDictionary.Words | Contains the user defined words. |
| VoicemailContract | The contract between the voicemail provider and applications. |
| VoicemailContract.Status | Defines fields exposed through the /status path of this content provider. |
| VoicemailContract.Voicemails | Defines fields exposed through the /voicemail path of this content provider. |
| Settings.SettingNotFoundException |
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