flutter_contacts 0.0.1

Full-fledged flutter plugin to read, write and observe native contacts.

flutter_contacts

Fluter plugin to read, create, update, delete and observe native contacts.

For a minimalistic example, take a look at example/. You can write a full-fledged contacts app with it – see example_full/ to see how.

Features

• List all contacts
• Create new contact
• Update existing contact
• Delete contacts
• Observe contact database changes
• Fetch all details for a given contact, including:
  • Photo (low / high resolution)
  • Phones
  • Emails
  • Company / job title
  • Postal addresses
  • Websites
  • Birthday / events
  • Instant messaging / social profiles
  • Notes
  • Labels (such as "main" or "work" for phones)

Screenshots

Usage

import 'package:flutter_contacts/flutter_contacts.dart';

/// Get all contacts (IDs and names only)
List<Contact> contacts = await FlutterContacts.getContacts();

/// Get all fields (phones, emails, photo, job, etc) for a given contact
Contact contact = await FlutterContacts.getContact(contacts.first.id);

/// Create contact
Contact newContact = Contact.create()
    ..name = Name(first: 'John', last: 'Doe')
    ..phones = [Phone('555-123-4567', label: PhoneLabel.mobile)];
await FlutterContacts.newContact(newContact);

/// Update contact
contact.emails.add(Email('[e-mail]'));
await FlutterContacts.updateContact(contact);

/// Delete contact
await FlutterContacts.deleteContact(contact.id);

/// Listen to contacts database changes
FlutterContacts.onChange(() => print('Contact DB changed'));

Installation

1. Add json_serializable: ^3.5.0 (or higher) to the dev_dependencies in pubspec.yaml.
2. Add permission_handler: ^5.0.0+hotfix.3 (or higher) to the dependencies in pubspec.yaml: this is the package that allows you to request for contact permissions.
3. Add the following <uses-permissions> tags to AndroidManifest.xml (for Android):

<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" ...>
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_CONTACTS"/>
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_CONTACTS"/>
    <application ...>
    ...

Development notes

Run build_runner to generate g.dart files

flutter pub run build_runner build

Format files

./scripts/format.sh