9 Answers

• For iOS, recordId is the property that holds the unique ID. For Android, id is the unique ID.

• you can use contact.recordId to get the DB id.

  only tested on iphone 4.1 emulator using 1.6 sdk

  I had to go have a look in the sdk source to figure it out :S

• Hi,
  Does anyone have an answer on this ? I have the exact same need.
  if there is a getPersonById function, I suppose there is a way to get the id before calling it.

  How did you solve your issue ?

  Many thanks !

• I had this problem a couple months ago…
  It seems that the iPHONE Address Book is more developed for quite a while.
  ANDROID has only recently been supported, and not real good support yet anyway.
  I was trying to solve the exact same issue, and got no where. I gave up… and just used the contact picker which works consistently across both android and iPHONE.

  Titanium.Contacts.showContacts({

  selectedPerson: function(e) {
  Ti.API.info('— inside selectedPerson ———');
  var person = e.person;
  Ti.API.info('fullName: '+person.fullName);
  var fullName = person.fullName;
  lll.text = person.fullName;
  var pp = person.phone;
  Ti.API.info('—— creating an array of contacts for dislaytable——-');
  var phonenumbers = [];

  for (var label in pp) {                
      Ti.API.info('------  step 01 -------' + label);;
      var ppp = pp[label];
  
          for (var i=0; i<ppp.length;i++){
          var otherPhones = ppp[i];
          Ti.API.info(label + ": "+otherPhones);
          phonenumbers.push({title:label+ ' - '+ otherPhones, hasChild:true, ph:otherPhones, fullName:fullName});    
              }; //for i
  
      }; //for label
  

  Not what you wanted to see… but….

• If your doing an dialing app… I predict you are going to run into another problem. I posted a message on the help que you may want to check out…

  http://developer.appcelerator.com/question/117335/pauses-in-android-phone-numbers

  a pause in iPHONE is a ','
  a pause in ANDROID is a 'p'
  or so it seems… I want feedback to confirm this.

• Thanks!

  Managed to get the id using contact.recordId as mentioned but I'm always getting a null when i try to use getPersonById..

  Tried:

  • getPersonById(1);

  • getPersonById('1');

  with no success :(

• Thanks!

  Managed to get the id using contact.recordId as mentioned but I'm always getting a null when i try to use getPersonById..

  Tried:

  • getPersonById(1);

  • getPersonById('1');

  with no success :(

• This works for me like a charme

  Ti.Contacts.showContacts({
      animated:true,
      selectedPerson:function(e) {
          Ti.API.info(e.person.recordId);
      }
  });
  var personData = Ti.Contacts.getPersonByID(parseInt(entries[c].contact,10));
  name = personData.fullName;
  Ti.API.info(name);
  

• In android no unique ID is returned :-( Can someone confirm this?