⚡ Ionic Angular Contacts

• App to view and add contacts to phone native contacts list using the Ionic framework.
• Another great Ionic Quick Win from Simon Grimm IonicAcademy Youtube video 'Ionic 4 Native Contact Management (Call, SMS)' with updates
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📄 Table of contents

• ⚡ Ionic Angular Contacts
  • 📄 Table of contents
  • 📚 General info
  • 📷 Screenshots
  • 📶 Technologies
  • 💾 Setup
  • 💻 Code Examples
  • 🆒 Features
  • 📋 Status & To-do list
  • 👏 Inspiration
  • 📁 License
  • ✉️ Contact

📚 General info

• App lists all contacts from the phone Contacts list and a contact can be added. The user can also call or send an sms to a contact.

📷 Screenshots

📶 Technologies

• Ionic v6
• Ionic/angular v6
• Angular framework v13
• Cordova plugin Contacts v3. This plugin is being deprecated
• Cordova plugin sms v1
• Cordova plugin call number v1

💾 Setup

• Install dependencies using npm i
• To start the server on localhost://8100 type: 'ionic serve'

💻 Code Examples

• function to load all contacts so they can be shown on-screen as a list.

loadContacts() {
  let options = {
    filter: '',
    multiple: true,
    hasPhoneNumber: true
  };

  this.contacts.find(['*'], options).then((contacts: Contact[]) => {
    this.myContacts = contacts;
    console.log('Contacts: ', contacts);
  });
}

🆒 Features

• User can call a contact or send them an sms.

📋 Status & To-do list

• Status: Compiles and displays in simulator on 'ionic serve --devapp'. Needs to be installed on device to test it.
• To-do: Deploy to device and test.

👏 Inspiration

• Simon Grimm IonicAcademy Youtube video 'Ionic 4 Native Contact Management (Call, SMS)'

📁 License

• This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT license.

✉️ Contact

• Repo created by ABateman, email: gomezbateman@yahoo.com