In fact you can export and import from vcf files. The code is already implemented in the App.
If you click on "share" button it will generate a vcard with this contact (or multiple contacts, if you are in multi selection mode). The problem is that, we do not have a app that accept a vcard and save it to disk, or vice-versa. We have two options here. 1 - Add a explicitly option on address-book-app to save/restore file to disk (which can be complicated since we will need to open a file dialog asking where to save/read it). 2 - Implement support for that on file manage. This will be very simple since we only need to receive it from content-hub and write it on disk. The sabe is valid if a user click on a vcard file it should use content-hub to import it to address-book. ** Also affects: canonical-devices-system-image Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to address-book-app in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1331348 Title: [address book] No import/export to/from files Status in Canonical System Image: New Status in Ubuntu UX: Triaged Status in address-book-app package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Hi, There are no option to sync contact for a human being form the Contacts apps, from a backup file (xml,vcf,…?). This need comes from that many users of Ubuntu might be moving from Android or other famous OS on phone; these OS not always give the option to sync contact on SIM, but on an file on the SDCARD, so Ubuntu (address-book-app) should provide a way to import these backups. Steps : * Launch contacts * no option to sync, import/export contact are found on the interface (only a search option and a + option) * swipe from down to access the + menu, users might expect to add manually contact here, no more option like importing contacts from file. * To be sure I checked in the system settings, no import option found there User should be able to add contact from his backup on SDCARD (no one want to import hundreds of contacts manually). To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-devices-system-image/+bug/1331348/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp