Questions tagged [contacts]

Related to accessing contacts (CRUD, operations on contacts like messaging) from contact-list or address book in mails, android, iphone, windows-phone or facebook.

Contacts, called Address Book before OS X Mountain Lion, is a computerized address book included with Apple's OS X. It includes various syncing capabilities and integrates with other OS X applications and features.

Questions can be about accessing contacts(CRUD, operations on contacts like messaging) from contact-list or address book in mails, android, iphone, windows-phone or facebook.

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Contact Address book crash on iOS 10 beta

When click on any contacts in address book (inside my app) it's crashing on iOS 10 beta and working fine on iOS 9 versions; This is the crash log *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'CNPropertyNotFetchedException', reason: 'A property was…
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Android : Check phone number present in Contact List ? (Phone number retrieve from phone call)

I make a BroadcastReceiver to receive Phone number of the person who call me How to check if the phone number receive is on my contact list ? Do you…
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(ios9) HangTracer interval is 0, forcing to 1s, while using Contact Framework

I was working with Contact Framework (just adding a contact). And It was saved without any problem (I double checked in Contact List) but recently I notice that this message appears on console: 2015-06-12 09:57:39.723…
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How to access contacts list in Windows Phone 7?

How do you access the contacts store (the contact list) within Windows Phone 7? Thanks! update: It seems that this might be available in the next version of WP7, Mango: Link
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Get Updated Contacts in Android for Contact Sync

I am working on Contact Sync in Android and I have successfully done with First time Contact Sync. Here is what I am doing. 1. Fetching all Contacts and Saving each contact in DB with Contact._ID 2. Fetching Names and Phone Numbers and saving in…
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How can I make an only active on mobile devices?

I want to add this code to make the contact details on my website automatically jump into a mobile dialpad/address book when clicked: Call Us Now How can I make it appear as plain text for non-telephone devices…
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Insert contact in Android with ContactsContract

I am trying to add a new contact to the Android 2.2 contacts directly. //this code doesn't work ContentValues cv=new ContentValues(); cv.put(ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME, "TESTEST"); Uri u=…
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How to open a contact card in Android by ID

Is it possible to open an android contact card by contact's ID? It works with the phone-number. Here is an example, if I use Intent i = new Intent(); i.setAction(ContactsContract.Intents.SHOW_OR_CREATE_CONTACT); i.setData(Uri.fromParts("tel",…
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Is ABRecordID a reliable way to identify unique contacts?

My app uploads contacts, and, in the future, will need to update them. Is using the ABRecordID a reliable way to identify people, or is it possible for a new record to obtain the ID of a deleted record? To optimize uploads, I would like to upload…
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Android get a cursor only with contacts that have an email listed >android 2.0

i have the following code to get contacts from content provider String[] columns = new String[] { ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME, ContactsContract.Contacts._ID, …
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Provide the caller id for incoming call from my own app

I want to write an App that can identify the phone number of incoming (unknown) calls by looking into a table inside my app (e.g. an SQLite Database Table). I already implemented this in iOS using a Call Directory Extension, but for Android the only…
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Using LibPhoneNumber google lib in Android

The library libphonenumber doesn't work on Android and the exception says: "Caused by: java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: CANON_EQ flag not supported" The description in the webpage says that the lib is for "Smartphones" but Android doesn't…
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Set custom profile picture for a contact in Telegram

Is it possible to set a custom image for a contact who may has or not has a profile image in Telegram?
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How to retrieve address book contacts with Swift?

I don't understand why my code doesn't compile with Swift. I am trying to convert this Objective-C code: CFErrorRef error = NULL; ABAddressBookRef addressBook = ABAddressBookCreateWithOptions(NULL, &error); if (addressBook != nil) { …
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how to change form action url for contact form 7?

I'm using Contact Form 7 in a wordpress site with multiple forms. I need to direct one form to a different form action url than the others. I found the reply below for a previous thread but I'm not sure how to go about it. Can someone specify what…
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