ContactPicker plugin for Cordova / PhoneGap

This Plugin is inspired from ContactChooser plugin here

This Plugin brings up a native iOS or Android contact-picker overlay, accessing the addressbook and returning the selected contact's name, phone number and email, also new contact can be added.

Usage

This has been successfully tested from Cordova 2.2.0 through to version 3.1.0.

Example Usage:

1. Pick contact

window.plugins.ContactPicker.chooseContact(function(contactInfo) {
//to get all phones numbers
    for (var i = 0; i < contactInfo.phones.length; i++) {
	     alert(contactInfo.phones[i]);
    };
    alert(contactInfo.displayName + " " + contactInfo.selectedPhone + " " + contactInfo.phones[0] + " " + contactInfo.email);
});

The method which will return a JSON. Example:

{
    displayName: "John Doe",
    email: "[email protected]",
    selectPhone: "(555) 555-5555",
    phones: ["numbers"]
}

2. Add new contact

//you can prefilled variable by add contact object 
var contact = {};
contact.displayName = "displayName";
contact.email = "email";
contact.phoneNumber = "phoneNumber";
window.plugins.ContactPicker.addContact(contact, function(contactInfo) {
    alert(contactInfo.displayName + " " + contactInfo.phones[0] + " " + contactInfo.email);
});
//or you can leave it empty by ad passing null in parameter
window.plugins.ContactPicker.addContact(null, function(contactInfo) {
    alert(contactInfo.displayName + " " + contactInfo.phones[0] + " " + contactInfo.email);
});

Installation

for Cordova >= 3.0.0

phonegap local plugin add https://github.com/hazemhagrass/ContactPicker.git

cordova plugin add https://github.com/hazemhagrass/ContactPicker.git

for Cordova >= 5.0.0

cordova plugin add com-badrit-contactpicker

MIT Licence

Copyright 2013 Monday Consulting GmbH

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