How to set contact picture?

cordova
1

I am using ngCordova-Contact plugin, which works fine. But I cant find any solution to set a picture for an contact? My source is an base64 encoded picture - extracted from an existing contact.

If someone knows any examples or documentation regarding this topic…

2

This post might help you, tell me if this is what you want

3

Thanks for your answer, displaying the Picture is no problem - i want to set the Contact photo in Contacts on the Device.

4

Oh, do you mean modify the contact picture ?
Have you looked into GitHub - apache/cordova-plugin-contacts: [DEPRECATED] Apache Cordova Plugin contacts ?

5

Sure, the process to create a contact is clear and works like a charm. But how to upload and set the contact picture?

The object has a property “url” but how to set a new picture for a contact. I would think it must be something like:

  1. Upload picture to device
  2. Find out “content://” url on device ?

I have searched for hours but no example or documentation found (;

6

I’ve never worked with contacts, but if you used this to create a contact (see below), can’t you just do contact.photos[0] = yourBase64Image; ?
Sorry not to be able to help more

function onSuccess(contact) {
   alert("Save Success");
};

function onError(contactError) {
  alert("Error = " + contactError.code);
};

 // create a new contact object
var contact = navigator.contacts.create();
contact.displayName = "Plumber";
contact.nickname = "Plumber";            // specify both to support all devices

// populate some fields
var name = new ContactName();
name.givenName = "Jane";
name.familyName = "Doe";
contact.name = name;

// save to device
contact.save(onSuccess,onError);
7

Thanks for your help, but not working (-: I hope someone else has an idea about this topic.

8

Ok… seems to be an bug in Cordova Contacts Plugin. Regarding some documentation you can pass a base64 string like this:

theContact.photos[0] = new ContactField('base64', base64, true)

But the function in contacts plugin, to resolve this does not support this format. Now i have modified the Java Class to handle base64 … works…

9

Thanks for the update with your solution, good luck for the rest !