React Native Contacts

Work in progress successor to react-native-addressbook. This is essentially a pre-alpha release. Expect breaking changes!

Rx support with react-native-contacts-rx

Status

• Preliminary iOS and Android support
• API subject to revision, changelog in release notes

Feature	iOS	Android
getAll	✔	✔
addContact	✔	✔
updateContact	✔	😞
deleteContact	✔	😞
get with options	😞	😞
groups	😞	😞

API

getAll (callback) - returns all contacts as an array of objects
addContact (contact, callback) - adds a contact to the AddressBook.
updateContact (contact, callback) - where contact is an object with a valid recordID
deleteContact (contact, callback) - where contact is an object with a valid recordID

Usage

getAll is a database intensive process, and can take a long time to complete depending on the size of the contacts list. Because of this, it is recommended you access the getAll method before it is needed, and cache the results for future use.

Also there is a lot of room for performance enhancements in both iOS and android. PR's welcome!

var Contacts = require('react-native-contacts')

Contacts.getAll((err, contacts) => {
  if(err && err.type === 'permissionDenied'){
    // x.x
  } else {
    console.log(contacts)
  }
})

Example Contact Record

{
  recordID: 1,
  familyName: "Jung",
  givenName: "Carl",
  middleName: "",
  emailAddresses: [{
    label: "work",
    email: "carl-jung@example.com",
  }],
  phoneNumbers: [{
    label: "mobile",
    number: "(555) 555-5555",
  }],
  thumbnailPath: "",
}

NOTE

• on Android the entire display name is passed in the givenName field. middleName and familyName will be "".

Adding Contacts

Currently all fields from the contact record except for thumbnailPath are supported for writing

var newPerson = {
  familyName: "Nietzsche",
  givenName: "Friedrich",
  emailAddresses: [{
    label: "work",
    email: "mrniet@example.com",
  }],
}

Contacts.addContact(newPerson, (err) => { /*...*/ })

Updating and Deleting Contacts

//contrived example
Contacts.getAll( (err, contacts) => {
  //update the first record
  let someRecord = contacts[0]
  someRecord.emailAddresses.push({
    label: "junk",
    email: "mrniet+junkmail@test.com",
  })
  Contacts.updateContact(someRecord, (err) => { /*...*/ })

  //delete the second record
  Contacts.deleteContact(contacts[1], (err) => { /*...*/ })
})

Update and delete reference contacts by their recordID (as returned by the OS in getContacts). Apple does not guarantee the recordID will not change, e.g. it may be reassigned during a phone migration. Consequently you should always grab a fresh contact list with getContacts before performing update and delete operations.

You can also delete a record using only it's recordID like follows: Contacts.deleteContact({recordID: 1}, (err) => {})}

Displaying Thumbnails (iOS only)

The thumbnailPath is the direct URI for the temp location of the contact's cropped thumbnail image.

<Image
  source={{uri: contact.thumbnailPath}}
  style={styles.thumb}
/>

Getting started

run npm install react-native-contacts

iOS

1. In XCode, in the project navigator, right click Libraries ➜ Add Files to [your project's name]
2. add ./node_modules/react-native-contacts/RCTContacts.xcodeproj
3. In the XCode project navigator, select your project, select the Build Phases tab and in the Link Binary With Libraries section add libRCTContacts.a

Android

• In android/settings.gradle

...
include ':react-native-contacts'
project(':react-native-contacts').projectDir = new File(settingsDir, '../node_modules/react-native-contacts/android')

• In android/app/build.gradle

...
dependencies {
    ...
    compile project(':react-native-contacts')
}

• register module (in android/app/src/main/java/[your-app-namespace]/MainActivity.java)

import com.rt2zz.reactnativecontacts.ReactNativeContacts; // <------ add import

public class MainActivity extends Activity implements DefaultHardwareBackBtnHandler {
  ......
    mReactInstanceManager = ReactInstanceManager.builder()
      .setApplication(getApplication())
      .setBundleAssetName("index.android.bundle")
      .setJSMainModuleName("index.android")
      .addPackage(new MainReactPackage())
      .addPackage(new ReactNativeContacts())              // <------ add package
      .setUseDeveloperSupport(BuildConfig.DEBUG)
      .setInitialLifecycleState(LifecycleState.RESUMED)
      .build();
  ......
}

• add Contacts permission (in android/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml) (only add the permissions you need)

...
  <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_CONTACTS" />
  <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_CONTACTS" />
...

Permissions Methods (iOS only, optional)

checkPermission (callback) - checks permission to use AddressBook.
requestPermission (callback) - request permission to use AddressBook.

Usage as follows:

Contacts.checkPermission( (err, permission) => {
  // Contacts.PERMISSION_AUTHORIZED || Contacts.PERMISSION_UNDEFINED || Contacts.PERMISSION_DENIED
  if(permission === 'undefined'){
    Contacts.requestPermission( (err, permission) => {
      // ...
    })
  }
  if(permission === 'authorized'){
    // yay!
  }
  if(permission === 'denied'){
    // x.x
  }
})

These methods do not re-request permission if permission has already been granted or denied. This is a limitation in iOS, the best you can do is prompt the user with instructions for how to enable contacts from the phone settings page Settings > [app name] > contacts.

Todo

• android feature parity
• migrate iOS from AddressBook to Contacts
• implement get with options
• groups support