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Tobias Mücksch updated CB-11038:
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Description:
For some reason, Android (or Gmail) creates a contact for each email a user
receives (via gmail). By default those Contacts are hidden in the systems
contacts-app.
The problem is; the cordova-plugin-contacts retrieves those contacts too; even
if they aren't real contacts and in most cases of no interest. Additionally
this is different behaviour from the iOS version.
You can spot these "ghost contacts" when you open your contacts app, click on
the settings (top right corner), and then on "Contacts to display" ->
"Customize" -> Google -> "My Contacts".
In my opinion there should be at least an option to filter out specific
contacts sources. It's very annoying to have plenty of nonsense contacts
(around 50 in my case). For example I have some contacts in the list for email
addresses I have received invoices or even newsletters from.
Side note: I'm not 100% percent sure where these contacts come from. Either
android or the gmail web app.
I guess filtering by this attribute may help:
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/provider/ContactsContract.Groups.html
was:
For some reason, Android (or Gmail) creates a contact for each email a user
receives (via gmail). By default those Contacts are hidden in the systems
contacts-app.
The problem is; the cordova-plugin-contacts retrieves those contacts too; even
if they aren't real contacts and in most cases of no interest. Additionally
this is different behaviour from the iOS version.
You can spot these "ghost contacts" when you open your contacts app, click on
the settings (top right corner), and then on "Contacts to display" ->
"Customize" -> Google -> "My Contacts".
In my opinion there should be at least an option to filter out specific
contacts sources. It's very annoying to have plenty of nonsense contacts
(around 50 in my case). For example I have some contacts in the list for email
addresses I have received invoices or even newsletters from.
Side note: I'm not 100% percent sure where these contacts come from. Either
android or the gmail web app.
> Android: Automatically created (nonsense) contacts are retrieved too
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> Key: CB-11038
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-11038
> Project: Apache Cordova
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Plugin Contacts
> Affects Versions: 2.0.0
> Environment: Android 6 Marshmallow
> Reporter: Tobias Mücksch
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> For some reason, Android (or Gmail) creates a contact for each email a user
> receives (via gmail). By default those Contacts are hidden in the systems
> contacts-app.
> The problem is; the cordova-plugin-contacts retrieves those contacts too;
> even if they aren't real contacts and in most cases of no interest.
> Additionally this is different behaviour from the iOS version.
> You can spot these "ghost contacts" when you open your contacts app, click on
> the settings (top right corner), and then on "Contacts to display" ->
> "Customize" -> Google -> "My Contacts".
> In my opinion there should be at least an option to filter out specific
> contacts sources. It's very annoying to have plenty of nonsense contacts
> (around 50 in my case). For example I have some contacts in the list for
> email addresses I have received invoices or even newsletters from.
> Side note: I'm not 100% percent sure where these contacts come from. Either
> android or the gmail web app.
> I guess filtering by this attribute may help:
> http://developer.android.com/reference/android/provider/ContactsContract.Groups.html
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