Listing all available contacts
Developers can access, read from, and filter the contacts saved within the device's contact database, allowing them to query and work with the address book on the device.
How to do it...
We will create an application to read all contacts in the device database and output them as a list:
- Firstly, create a new PhoneGap project named
readcontactby running the following command:phonegap create readcontact com.myapp.readcontact readcontact - Add the devices platform. You can choose to use Android, iOS, or both:
cordova platform add ios cordova platform add android
- Add the contact plugins by running this command:
cordova plugin add org.apache.cordova.contacts - Open
www/index.html, and let's clean up the unnecessary elements. We will be using jQuery Mobile, so we have to make a reference:<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset="utf-8" /> <meta name="format-detection" content="telephone...
