Workaround for Chips to add a telephone number programmatically with a successful chip conversion. This is the code that's run from an onActivityResult after a telephone number selection.

gistfile1.txt

	private void processPickResult(final Intent data) {
		final Handler handler = new Handler();
		ExecutorManager.sInstance.mExecutor.execute(new Runnable() {
			@Override
			public void run() {
				Uri pickedPhoneNumber = data.getData();
				Cursor cursor = getContentResolver().query(pickedPhoneNumber, null, null, null, null);
				try{
					if (cursor.moveToFirst()) {
						final String telephone = cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.DATA1));
						final Contact contact = Contact.get(telephone, true);
						handler.post(new Runnable() {
							@Override
							public void run() {
								Editable current = mRecipientsEditor.getText();
								mRecipientsEditor.removeTextChangedListener(mRecipientsWatcher);
								current.append(PhoneNumberUtils.normalizeNumber(contact.getNumber()));
								mRecipientsEditor.setSelection(mRecipientsEditor.getText().length());
								mRecipientsEditor.addTextChangedListener(mRecipientsWatcher);
								mRecipientsEditor.dispatchKeyEvent(new KeyEvent(KeyEvent.ACTION_DOWN, KeyEvent.KEYCODE_SPACE));
								mRecipientsEditor.getAdapter().addUpdateObserver(new EntriesUpdatedObserver() {
									@Override
									public void onChanged(List<RecipientEntry> entries) {
										mRecipientsEditor.getAdapter().removeUpdateObserver(this);
										mRecipientsEditor.getOnItemClickListener().onItemClick(null, null, 0, 0);
										mRecipientsEditor.requestFocus();
									}
								});
							}
						});
					}
				} finally {
					cursor.close();
				}
			}
		});
	}