How to set a ringtone for a single contact on Android?

Question

How can I apply a ringtone to a selected contact only?

I found a way to set a default ringtone that applies to all contacts, but that is not my goal.

I want the application to have a button ("Apply ringtone for communication"), which when I click activityForResult displays a list of all the contacts on the phone. When a contact is selected, contact activity closes and returns with a URI to the contact. Then the application should apply the selected ringtone to this particular contact.

The code for displaying and selecting contacts by activity has already been implemented and seems to work in the application.

Answer 1

You can use ContactsContract.Contacts , which has a CUSTOM_RINGTONE column (which is a read / write column!) For this purpose.

 Uri contactUri; ContentValues values = new ContentValues(); values.put(ContactsContract.Contacts.CUSTOM_RINGTONE, newRingtoneUri.toString()); context.getContentResolver().update(contactUri, values, where, args); 

In addition, you may find this discussion helpful (code from there).

Answer 2

I know that it was so late, but I am posting here because the above did not work for me

 ContentValues values = new ContentValues(); ContentResolver resolver = getContentResolver(); File file = new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() + "/Test/ArjunMovieTelugu.mp3"); if(file.exists()) { Uri oldUri = MediaStore.Audio.Media.getContentUriForPath(file.getAbsolutePath()); resolver.delete(oldUri, MediaStore.MediaColumns.DATA + "=\"" + file.getAbsolutePath() + "\"", null); String contact_number = "CONTACT_NUMBER"; Uri lookupUri = Uri.withAppendedPath(ContactsContract.PhoneLookup.CONTENT_FILTER_URI, contact_number); // The columns used for `Contacts.getLookupUri` String[] projection = new String[]{ ContactsContract.Contacts._ID, ContactsContract.Contacts.LOOKUP_KEY }; Cursor data = getContentResolver().query(lookupUri, projection, null, null, null); if (data != null && data.moveToFirst()) { data.moveToFirst(); // Get the contact lookup Uri long contactId = data.getLong(0); String lookupKey = data.getString(1); Uri contactUri = ContactsContract.Contacts.getLookupUri(contactId, lookupKey); values.put(MediaStore.MediaColumns.DATA, file.getAbsolutePath()); values.put(MediaStore.MediaColumns.TITLE, "Beautiful"); values.put(MediaStore.MediaColumns.MIME_TYPE, "audio/mp3"); values.put(MediaStore.Audio.Media.IS_RINGTONE, true); Uri uri = MediaStore.Audio.Media.getContentUriForPath(file.getAbsolutePath()); Uri newUri = resolver.insert(uri, values); if(newUri != null){ String uriString = newUri.toString(); values.put(ContactsContract.Contacts.CUSTOM_RINGTONE, uriString); Log.e("Uri String for " + ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI, uriString); long updated = resolver.update(contactUri, values,null, null); Toast.makeText(RingtoneChange.this, "Updated : " + updated, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show(); } data.close(); } } else { Toast.makeText(RingtoneChange.this, "File does not exist", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show(); } 

Note: We need to add runtime permissions for marshow marshow as

 int REQUEST_ID_MULTIPLE_PERMISSIONS = 1; private boolean checkAndRequestPermissions() { int readExternal = ContextCompat.checkSelfPermission(this, android.Manifest.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE); int writeExternal = ContextCompat.checkSelfPermission(this, android.Manifest.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE); int readContacts = ContextCompat.checkSelfPermission(this, android.Manifest.permission.READ_CONTACTS); int writeContacts = ContextCompat.checkSelfPermission(this, android.Manifest.permission.WRITE_CONTACTS); List<String> listPermissionsNeeded = new ArrayList<>(); if (readExternal != PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED) { listPermissionsNeeded.add(android.Manifest.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE); } if (writeExternal != PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED) { listPermissionsNeeded.add(android.Manifest.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE); } if (readContacts != PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED) { listPermissionsNeeded.add(android.Manifest.permission.READ_CONTACTS); } if (writeContacts != PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED) { listPermissionsNeeded.add(android.Manifest.permission.WRITE_CONTACTS); } if (!listPermissionsNeeded.isEmpty()){ ActivityCompat.requestPermissions(this, listPermissionsNeeded.toArray (new String[listPermissionsNeeded.size()]), REQUEST_ID_MULTIPLE_PERMISSIONS); return false; } return true; } 

and also include all these permissions in the manifest file as

 <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" /> <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" /> <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_CONTACTS" /> <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_CONTACTS" />