Retrieve contact list stored in the phone

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In this space, please describe the feature or enhancement you would like to
see for App Inventor.   Be as specific as you can.
Hi,
I thought of this once i completed the NoTextWhileDriving tutorial. Currently 
this App responds to all messages sent to it,even to unknown numbers. 

I wanted to modify it so that it will reply only to numbers present in the 
contact list at not all numbers. 

As per my knowledge there is no way to retrieve the contact list in the phone 
as of now. 
I think this would be a good feature to include!

Original issue reported on code.google.com by ishanpa...@gmail.com on 17 Nov 2010 at 1:38

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Original comment by yonglinw...@gmail.com on 15 Mar 2012 at 11:50

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You can do that with Contact Picker Component

Original comment by yonglinw...@gmail.com on 15 Mar 2012 at 12:12

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ContactPicker, EmailPicker and PhoneNumberPicker only open a list for the user 
to pick one contact at a time, allowing the properties of this one contact 
only, to become available for processing.

Please explain how the (entire!) contact list can be retrieved (so that 
parameters of all users would be available for processing) with "Contact Picker 
Component". Unless you just guessed, which would not be much help. 

Original comment by georgi...@gmail.com on 15 Mar 2012 at 5:43

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From Hal(halatmitdotedu@gmail.com):I don't think it would work to just retrieve 
the contact list.  It would be very large and hard to deal with in App 
Inventor.   But I agree there's a need there.   We'll need to think of 
something better.

Also, we need to fix contact picker to use the more up-to-date android format.

Original comment by yonglinw...@gmail.com on 19 Mar 2012 at 5:21

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Original comment by weihuali...@gmail.com on 19 Apr 2012 at 8:25

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The "pickers" also need to enable the search option.  Currently, the entire 
contact list is displayed with no why (that I know of) to search for a contact 
in a large list.  

Original comment by mrsp...@gmail.com on 21 Apr 2012 at 8:40

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I am also looking for this feature. After searching for sometime on forums I 
found that many people need this feature.

I was trying to get the contact names and numbers based on user input, but I 
cannot search the phone contacts programatically.

Original comment by venkat.m...@gmail.com on 14 Nov 2013 at 7:37

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you can access the Google Contacts API and download the complete contact list, 
see also here https://puravidaapps.com/contacts.php
Taifun

Original comment by taifunb...@gmail.com on 27 Sep 2014 at 4:21