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Tobias Mücksch updated CB-11038:
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Description:
For some reason, Android (or Gmail) creates a contact for each email a user
receives (via gmail). *By default those Contacts are hidden in the systems
contacts-app.*
The problem is; the cordova-plugin-contacts retrieves those useless contacts
together with the ordinary contacts; *even if they aren't real contacts and in
most cases of literally +no interest+*. Additionally this is different
behaviour from the iOS version.
You can spot these "ghost contacts" when you open your contacts app, click on
the settings (top right corner), and then on "Contacts to display" ->
"Customize" -> Google -> "My Contacts".
In my opinion there should be at least an option to filter out specific
contacts sources. It's very annoying to have plenty of *+nonsense+* contacts
(around 50 in my case). For example I have some contacts in the list for email
addresses I have received invoices from or even newsletters.
Side note: I'm not 100% percent sure where these contacts come from. Either
android or the gmail web app.
I guess filtering by this attribute may help:
[ContactsContract.Group|http://developer.android.com/reference/android/provider/ContactsContract.Groups.html]
??which contains information about raw contact groups such as Gmail contact
groups. The current API does not support the notion of groups spanning multiple
accounts.??
was:
For some reason, Android (or Gmail) creates a contact for each email a user
receives (via gmail). *By default those Contacts are hidden in the systems
contacts-app.*
The problem is; the cordova-plugin-contacts retrieves those useless contacts;
*even if they aren't real contacts and in most cases of literally +no
interest+*. Additionally this is different behaviour from the iOS version.
You can spot these "ghost contacts" when you open your contacts app, click on
the settings (top right corner), and then on "Contacts to display" ->
"Customize" -> Google -> "My Contacts".
In my opinion there should be at least an option to filter out specific
contacts sources. It's very annoying to have plenty of *+nonsense+* contacts
(around 50 in my case). For example I have some contacts in the list for email
addresses I have received invoices from or even newsletters.
Side note: I'm not 100% percent sure where these contacts come from. Either
android or the gmail web app.
I guess filtering by this attribute may help:
[ContactsContract.Group|http://developer.android.com/reference/android/provider/ContactsContract.Groups.html]
??which contains information about raw contact groups such as Gmail contact
groups. The current API does not support the notion of groups spanning multiple
accounts.??
> Android: Automatically created (nonsense) contacts are retrieved too
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> Key: CB-11038
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-11038
> Project: Apache Cordova
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Plugin Contacts
> Affects Versions: 2.0.0
> Environment: Android 6 Marshmallow
> Reporter: Tobias Mücksch
>
> For some reason, Android (or Gmail) creates a contact for each email a user
> receives (via gmail). *By default those Contacts are hidden in the systems
> contacts-app.*
> The problem is; the cordova-plugin-contacts retrieves those useless contacts
> together with the ordinary contacts; *even if they aren't real contacts and
> in most cases of literally +no interest+*. Additionally this is different
> behaviour from the iOS version.
> You can spot these "ghost contacts" when you open your contacts app, click on
> the settings (top right corner), and then on "Contacts to display" ->
> "Customize" -> Google -> "My Contacts".
> In my opinion there should be at least an option to filter out specific
> contacts sources. It's very annoying to have plenty of *+nonsense+* contacts
> (around 50 in my case). For example I have some contacts in the list for
> email addresses I have received invoices from or even newsletters.
> Side note: I'm not 100% percent sure where these contacts come from. Either
> android or the gmail web app.
> I guess filtering by this attribute may help:
> [ContactsContract.Group|http://developer.android.com/reference/android/provider/ContactsContract.Groups.html]
> ??which contains information about raw contact groups such as Gmail contact
> groups. The current API does not support the notion of groups spanning
> multiple accounts.??
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