Contacts API

Access the device address book from your web app: read contacts with user permission in WebViewGold for Android.

WebViewGold allows for the export of contacts into a JavaScript variable, in the format below via the readcontacts:// API. The JSON object is stored in the contacts variable. In order to access this, your app must first gain permission through the requestcontactpermission:// API, which will prompt your user to enable contact permissions. Without completing this step, the readcontacts:// will populate the contacts variable with a null value.

Example output stored in JS contacts variable:

              {
                "John Appleseed":[
                   "888-555-5512",
                   "888-555-1212"
                ],
                "Daniel Higgins":[
                   "555-478-7672",
                   "(408) 555-5270",
                   "(408) 555-3514"
                ],
                "David Taylor":[
                   "555-610-6679"
                ],
                "Hank Zakroff":[
                   "(555) 766-4823",
                   "(707) 555-1854"
                ]
             }