to get email address from the addressbook in android
courtesy to http://www.anddev.org/viewtopic.php?p=19672 first add uses_permissions for reading contacts in the manifest file. then add this code inside any function(i.e onCreate() of activity) Uri mContacts = Contacts.ContactMethods.CONTENT_URI; String[] projection = new String[] { Contacts.ContactMethods.PERSON_ID, Contacts.ContactMethods.DISPLAY_NAME, Contacts.ContactMethods.KIND, Contacts.ContactMethods.DATA }; Cursor c = this.managedQuery(mContacts, projection, null, null, Contacts.ContactMethods.DISPLAY_NAME + " ASC"); c.moveToFirst(); int previousId = -1; do { int personId = c.getInt(c .getColumnIndex(Contacts.ContactMethods.PERSON_ID)); if (personId != previousId) { String personName = c.getString(c .getColumnIndex(Contacts.ContactMethods.DISPLAY_NAME)); Log.i("name",personName); } int dataKind = c.getInt(c .getColumnIndex(Contacts.ContactMethods.KIND)); if (dataKind == 1) { String personE