Time for action – searching device contacts

We will now see an example of getting all the contacts from the device and listing them down:

1. Create a new project using the PhoneGap CLI:

   $ phonegap create ContactsApi
   

2. Change the current working directory to the directory that is newly created:

   $ cd ContactsApi
   

3. Add the required platforms to the project. We will add Android for this example:

   $ phonegap platform add android
   

4. Install the Contacts plugin to the project:

   $ phonegap plugin add cordova-plugin-contacts
   

5. In the www/index.html file, you need to replace the content and add the following code. To start with, let's create an event listener and bind that to a function. In the following code, when the device is ready, the OnDeviceReady method will be fired:

   <script type=”text/javascript” charset=”utf-8”>
       document.addEventListener(“deviceready”, onDeviceReady, false);
   </script>

6. Now, let's add the content for the OnDeviceReady method:

   function onDeviceReady() {
       var options = new...