The Android Contacts tutorial part 5, here I show a robust solution for selecting a contact from a list. A filter/search mechanism is also implemented using the SimpleCursorAdapter.
Part 4 of Android Contacts tutorial presents an easy way to programatically search and retrieve a contact and all the fields we are interested in such as Phone, Email, Web, Company, Address, etc.
In Android Contacts tutorial part 3, I present a simple way of opening a contact in the System contact form using the ACTION_EDIT Intent .