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Bas Bosman updated CB-1291:
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Component/s: Plugin Contacts
> Windows 8 Contacts - Find+Create APIs
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> Key: CB-1291
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-1291
> Project: Apache Cordova
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Plugin Contacts, Windows 8
> Reporter: Jesse MacFadyen
> Assignee: Jesse MacFadyen
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> 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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