@capacitor-community/contacts
Capacitor community plugin for fetching contacts.
Maintainer | GitHub | Social | Sponsoring Company |
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Jonathan Gerber / Byrds & Bytes GmbH | idrimi / Byrds & Bytes GmbH | byrds.ch | Byrds & Bytes GmbH |
Maintenance Status: Actively Maintained
You can find a working Ionic App using the Byrds' Capacitor Contacts plugin here: https://github.com/byrdsandbytes/capContactsDemo/tree/capacitor-community
Setup your project with Capacitor. For details check here: https://capacitorjs.com
cd my-app
npm install --save @capacitor/core @capacitor/cli
Initalize Capacitor
npx cap init
Add the platforms you want to use.
npx cap add android
npx cap add ios
npx cap add electron
Install:
npm i --save @capacitor-community/contacts
Sync:
npx cap sync
For iOS you need to set a usage description in your info.plist file. (Privacy Setting) Open xCode search for your info.plist file and press the tiny "+". Add the following entry:
Privacy - Contacts Usage Description
Give it a value like:
"We need access to your contacts in order to do something."
For Android you have to add the permisions in your AndroidManifest.xml. Add the following permissions before the closing of the "manifest" tag.
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_CONTACTS" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_CONTACTS"/>
Next import the capContacts class to your MainActivity
// Initializes the Bridge
this.init(savedInstanceState, new ArrayList<Class<? extends Plugin>>() {{
// Additional plugins you've installed go here
// Ex: add(TotallyAwesomePlugin.class);
add(Contacts.class);
}});
Make sure to import it properly as well.
import ch.byrds.capacitor.contacts.Contacts;
NOTE: On Android you have to ask for permission first, before you can fetch the contacts. Use the getPermissions()
method before you try to fetch contacts using getContacts()
.
You have the following Methods available:
export interface ContactsPlugin {
getPermissions(): Promise<PermissionStatus>;
getContacts(): Promise<{contacts: Contact[]}>;
}
If you're considering to use this plugin you most likely want to retrive contacts a users contacts:
Import the Plugin in your TS file:
import { Plugins } from "@capacitor/core";
const { Contacts } = Plugins;
Next use it and console log the result:
Contacts.getContacts().then(result => {
console.log(result);
for (const contact of result.contacts) {
console.log(contact);
}
});
That's it. Do Whatever you want with the retrived contacts.
If you're trying to build something like "contacts matching" based on phone numbers i recommend using google libphonenumber: https://www.npmjs.com/package/google-libphonenumber
In order to match them properly you need to format them before you can match or store them properly.
export interface PermissionStatus {
granted: boolean;
}
export interface Contact {
contactId: string;
displayName?: string;
phoneNumbers: PhoneNumber[];
emails: EmailAddress[];
photoThumbnail?: string;
organizationName?: string;
organizationRole?: string;
birthday?: string;
}
export interface PhoneNumber {
label?: string;
number?: string;
}
export interface EmailAddress {
label?: string;
address?: string;
}
- Swift 5
- Java
- Angular
- Capacitor
- Jonathan Gerber (idrimi)
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