[jira] [Commented] (CB-1291) Windows 8 Contacts - Find+Create APIs

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Commit 04b96dc9426cc0c2504f0a36ba9acacb4ce52e6a in cordova-plugin-contacts's branch refs/heads/master from [~purplecabbage]
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CB-1291 Windows8 Adding contact picker apis


> Windows 8 Contacts - Find+Create APIs
> -------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CB-1291
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-1291
>             Project: Apache Cordova
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Plugin Contacts, Windows 8
>            Reporter: Jesse MacFadyen
>            Assignee: Jesse MacFadyen
>
> It looks like we will need to approach Contacts on Windows 8 differently.
> The goal of the Contacts API is not to have every app become a ContactProvider, which would result in chaos ... 
> Windows 8 does not have built in contacts, they are managed internally by the People app.  The People app is a ContactProvider  so when you are performing an operation that requires a contact, you are given the opportunity to select one or more contacts from the People app, as well as every other app that publishes the ContactProvider contract.
> Searching contacts cannot be achieved given Windows 8 APIs and interaction with the People app, but the primary use case of picking one or more contacts to interact with can work.
> I think the best approach would be to return a contact object as defined by PhoneGap APIs, but allow the user to actually do the selection ( via the picker )
> Here is a good write-up by a Microsoft evangelist about how contacts work on Windows 8.
> http://blogs.msdn.com/b/glengordon/archive/2012/08/28/windows-8-apps-for-the-phonegap-developer-contacts.aspx



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