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• You need to consider this Q&A entry when handling Android contacts: http://developer.appcelerator.com/question/126472/android-how-to-get-email-from-person-in-contacts

  You should also check the current Titanium.Contacts API docs as pretty much all properties of returned contacts are accounted for.

  Finally, Android cannot add/edit contacts via the core Titanium.Contacts API, but you can do it by using Android Intents. Check out the "Forging Titanium Episode 9: Android Intent Cookbook" screencast to see exactly how to do this.

• Martijn,

  Did you get this figured out? I'm trying to do something similar. I want to only pick a user with a phone number. If I set the details parameter to

      details:['firstName','lastName','phoneNumber']
  

  I get a contact record with first name, last name and nothing else.

• It took quite some figuring out, but I now use Titanium.API.info('Phonenr:'+event.contact.phone[0].value);
  for the phonenumber. That (mostly) works, altho not on all numbers.
  However, the iPhone also includes a picker that allows the user (in the modal) to not only select a person, but only a number. I really hope there is a way to call this from Titanium too, but I haven't figured it out yet…
  Let me know if you do!

• To make things clearer: The variable for phonenumber is phone. Not phonenumber.
  Thanks for the details example, helped me a lot!

• Hi there,

  contact.phone[0].value works for phone numbers on iPhone and simulator, but contact.email[0].value crashes my app on iPhone. It works as expected on simulator. Any tips?

• Nope, and I'm also having some issues with crashing:

  I have 2 issues. The main issue is that if a contact has multiple contacts, and I select the not-first phonenumber, the app crashes on reading the number. No error messages, it just crashes.
  The second is that it also crashes on reading the organisation.
  My (simplified) code:
  Titanium.Contacts.showContactPicker({
  success:function(event){
  var phonenr=event.contact.phone[0].value; //This crashes if I pick the not-first phone number for the contact.
  var org=event.contact.organization; //This always crashes
  },
  details:['firstName','lastName','phone','organization']
  });
  Any insight is welcome!

• I wanted to get a status on the issues above. I have a project where I need to get at the NATIVE Address book, and I would really like to hear some success stories as well as how you did it. perhaps some sample code. And some gotchas…

• An update: I did use (and ship) a project (on iPhone) using Contacts. As the details were too buggy (crashed when a contact had more than 1 phonenumber) I implemented this myself.