Unified Contact Picker HOS Library

Introduction

This library unifies the user contacts in a compact and user intuitive way allowing the end-user to choose between the contact's available communication options (email/phone number) follows Material Design guidelines.

UnifiedContactPicker is an HOS library which allows you to easily integrate contact picking workflow into your application with minimal effort

Source

The code in this repository was inspired from quiin/UnifiedContactPicker - v1.0. We are very thankful to quiin.

Demo

                

Features

• Unifies user's contacts
• Customizable UI
• Easy and redy to use
• Display list of contacts
• Follows Material Design guidelines

Installation

In order to use the library, add the following line to your root gradle file:

1. For using UnifiedContactPicker module in sample app, include the source code and add the below dependencies in entry/build.gradle to generate hap/support.har.

	dependencies {
            implementation project(':unifiedContactPicker')
            implementation fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.har'])
            testCompile 'junit:junit:4.12'
	}

2. For using UnifiedContactPicker in separate application using har file, add the har file in the entry/libs folder and add the dependencies in entry/build.gradle file.

	dependencies {
            implementation fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.har'])
            testCompile 'junit:junit:4.12'
	}

3. For using UnifiedContactPicker from a remote repository in separate application, add the below dependencies in entry/build.gradle file.

	dependencies {
           implementation 'dev.applibgroup:unifiedcontactpicker:1.0.0'
           testCompile 'junit:junit:4.12'
	}

Usage

To use UnifiedContactPicker in your app simply follow this 3 simple steps:

1. Add read contacts && write contacts permission in your config

"abilities": [
"reqPermissions":[
          {
            "name":"SystemPermission.READ_CONTACTS",
            "reason":"Populating contacts",
            "usedScene":{
              "ability":[
                "mx.com.quiin.unifiedcontactpicker.ui.ContactPickerAbility","mx.com.quiin.unifiedcontactpicker.MainAbility"
              ],
              "when":"always"
            }
          },
          {
            "name":"SystemPermission.WRITE_CONTACTS",
            "reason":"Populating contacts",
            "usedScene":{
              "ability":[
                "mx.com.quiin.unifiedcontactpicker.ui.ContactPickerAbility","mx.com.quiin.unifiedcontactpicker.MainAbility"
              ],
              "when":"always"
            }
          }
    ]

2. Launch ContactPickerAbility.java as activity result

// Your Activity or Fragment
public void launchContactPicker(Button button) {
    button.setClickedListener(listener -> {
        presentForResult(new ContactPickerAbility(), new Intent(), REQUEST_CONTACT_PICKER);
    });
}

3. Override onResult() and wait for the user to select the contacts.

@Override
protected void onResult(final int requestCode, final Intent resultIntent) {
        try {
            super.onResult(requestCode, resultIntent);
            if (resultIntent.hasParameter("CP_SELECTED_CONTACTS")) {
                mSelectedContacts.addAll(resultIntent.getSerializableParam("CP_SELECTED_CONTACTS"));
                SimpleAdapter contactListAdapt = new SimpleAdapter(mSelectedContacts, this);
                contactListCont.setVisibility(Component.VISIBLE);
                mSelectedCount.setText(this.getResourceManager().
                        getElement(ResourceTable.String_mainability_contact_select_info).getString());
                contactListCont.setItemProvider(contactListAdapt);
            }
        } catch (IOException | NotExistException | WrongTypeException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

Contacts are returned in a ArrayList of SimpleContact; each SimpleContact object ha the following accessible properties:

• DisplayName - Contact display name
• Communication - Contact selected communication (email/phone)

Support & extension

Currently there is a limitation to access the contact database, temporary the static list has been used to populate the contact. In future below modification is expected for populating the contacts from contact database instead of static list.

Modifications required in ContactPickerAbility.java.

1.In onstart() method call getContactInfo() before calling readContacts() function.

2.In readContact() method the list for base provider can be replaced with mContactsList instead of getTempContactList().

3.getTempContactList() method need to be removed.

• Feel free to make any pull request to add a new behaviour or fix some existing bug
• Feel free to open issues if you find some bug or unexpected behaviour
• I'll keep polishing and giving support to this library in my free time

Acknowledgments

• MaterialLetterIcon For the cool image icon in contact list