Can you access SIM contacts from J2ME?

Question

Hi, I am developing a mobile application where I need to access the phone book of users, contacts on the SIM card and phone.

Is it possible?

Answer 1

It depends on the handset, some only allow you to access phone contacts, some make both a phone and a sim. Make sure you PIMList over all the PIMList provided by PIM.listPIMLists() , often this method returns two lists, one of which will be a telephone, the other will be a sim.

Answer 2

Yes it is possible. Check out this discussion on the Nokia forum. Here it will be described in detail how to get contacts from the phone and SIM.

Answer 3

You can access your contacts using the following API

JSR 75: optional packages for the J2METM platform

http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=75

This is an optional package and may not be for all mobile devices.

You can check the following URL for sample programs

• http://developers.sun.com/mobility/apis/articles/pim/index.html
• http://www.java2s.com/Code/Java/J2ME/PersonalInformationManager.htm

Use the following code to check if the device supports PIM or not:

 String currentVersion = System.getProperty("microedition.pim.version" ) 

if the device is not supported, it will return null .