Deleting contacts with same name

[danijelzolic1]

Hi,

First of all, great plugin. Makes life easy.

My problem, on a One Plus running Android 9, is that if I have a contact ("John") that was created through the phone, I then create (ContactsService.addContact) a contact through the app with the exact same name ("John"), which results in a combined contact between these two. This is not so much of an issue and is probably just how the phone works. The issue is when I want to delete (ContactsService.deleteContact) the app-created contact through the app, it also deletes the old phone-created contact.

Not sure if the case is the on iOS.

So my question is, is there any solution to this?

I assume this is related to:
http://android-contact-id-vs-raw-contact-id.blogspot.com/

[lukasgit]

@danijelzolic1 thanks for the comment and question. Unfortunately, as you pointed out, it's related to the phone. There are hacks to differentiating contacts created with your app.

[danijelzolic1]

Tanks for the response.

Yes, every device is different but, at least on Android, this is because of fetching the "CONTACT_ID" instead of "RAW_CONTACT_ID".
I did a local change in the library to use RAW_CONTACT_ID and now it only deletes the app-created contact.

Just wanted to put this here if other people stumble on this issue.