contacts

AIR Native Extension for work with Contacts/AddressBook.

Features

Works in Syncronous and Asyncronous modes
Provides almost all properties defined in iOS' AddressBook (List of supported properties)

Requirements

Adobe AIR 3.6
iOS 6.1

Code Example

// checks if AddressBook is modified in sync mode

var isAddressBookChanged:Boolean = Contacts.getInstance().isModified(new Date());

...

// request first 100 or all contacts in async mode

Contacts.getInstance().getContactsAsync(new Range(0, 100), null,
  new Response(
    function(contacts:Array):void
    {
      trace("contacts from 0 to 100:", contacts);
    },
    function (info:Object):void
    {
      trace(info)
    })
);

Deploying

TBD

Roadmap

Port to Android
Support all properties for iOS
TBD

Contacts API

The contacts extension could operate with Address Book in syncronous and asyncronous mode. Each syncronous method has asyncronous counterpart with name that end on Async string. For detailed description see API reference.

API Reference

Related Projects

Some techniques and code has been borrowed from Memler's ContactEditor and its FreshPlanet fork

airext/contacts