How to add a phone number to existing contact

[JoyHong]

please help me, thanks

[cjltgb520]

I also have this requirement. Have you solved it?

[joachim-quis]

Hi, what do you call "device view"?

[JoyHong]

Hi, what do you call "device view"?

Sorry for my mistake，I means how to add a new phone number to existing contact？Is this library support it？

Very thanks

[joachim-quis]

You first need the contact ID. Then:

final contactId = '.....';
Contact contact = await FlutterContacts.getContact(contactId);
contact.phones.add(Phone('555-123-4567'));
await contact.update();

[JoyHong]

You first need the contact ID. Then:

final contactId = '.....';
Contact contact = await FlutterContacts.getContact(contactId);
contact.phones.add(Phone('555-123-4567'));
await contact.update();

Is there another way to add existing contact? eg. open contacts app，and auto fill phone number to an existing contact。

[joachim-quis]

I doubt you can autofill a phone number and pass it through the default contact app.

You can always use:

await FlutterContacts.openExternalView(contact.id);

or

await FlutterContacts.openExternalEdit(contact.id);

[JoyHong]

I doubt you can autofill a phone number and pass it through the default contact app.

You can always use:

await FlutterContacts.openExternalView(contact.id);

or

await FlutterContacts.openExternalEdit(contact.id);

em... my question is how to autofill phone number...

[joachim-quis]

Ah. In this case you can use:

final contact = Contact()..phones = [Phone('555-123-4567')];
await FlutterContacts.openExternalInsert(contact);

[joachim-quis]

But if this is for an existing contact, indeed, that is currently not possible. I'll reopen this as a feature request.