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.
Part 2 of the Android Contacts tutorial, showing how to add a custom column to a contact, and how to use that to identify a newly added contact and read its LOOKUPKEY.
Part 1 of a tutorial on working with Android Contacts: add a new contact programatically, including name, email, company, phone but also a thumbnail contact image .