Jesse MacFadyen created CB-1291:
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Summary: Windows 8 Contacts - Find+Create APIs
Key: CB-1291
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-1291
Project: Apache Cordova
Issue Type: Bug
Components: Windows 8
Reporter: Jesse MacFadyen
Assignee: Jesse MacFadyen
It looks like we will need to approach Contacts on Windows 8 differently.
The goal of the Contacts API is not to have every app become a ContactProvider,
which would result in chaos ...
Windows 8 does not have built in contacts, they are managed internally by the
People app. The People app is a ContactProvider so when you are performing an
operation that requires a contact, you are given the opportunity to select one
or more contacts from the People app, as well as every other app that publishes
the ContactProvider contract.
Searching contacts cannot be achieved given Windows 8 APIs and interaction with
the People app, but the primary use case of picking one or more contacts to
interact with can work.
I think the best approach would be to return a contact object as defined by
PhoneGap APIs, but allow the user to actually do the selection ( via the picker
)
Here is a good write-up by a Microsoft evangelist about how contacts work on
Windows 8.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/glengordon/archive/2012/08/28/windows-8-apps-for-the-phonegap-developer-contacts.aspx
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