feat: Support for Contacts Plugin in Capawesome Capacitor Plugins

[stephan-fischer]

Name

Contacts

Platform(s)

• Android
• iOS
• Web

Description

The capacitor-community/contacts plugin seems to be no longer maintained. Given the importance of accessing contacts in many Capacitor-based applications, it would be highly beneficial to have a well-maintained and actively developed alternative under the capawesome-team/capacitor-plugins repository.

Requested Features

1. Read Contacts: Ability to fetch contacts with attributes like name, phone number, email, address, and other relevant fields.
2. Search & Filter: Support for searching contacts by name, phone number, or email.
3. Permissions Handling: Smooth permission request and management for Android and iOS.
4. Efficient Data Handling: Fetch contacts efficiently without impacting performance.
5. Create & Edit Contacts: Ability to create new contacts and modify existing ones.
6. Delete Contacts: Option to remove contacts from the phonebook.
7. Cross-Platform Support: Full compatibility with Capacitor 5 and major mobile platforms.

Use Case

This plugin would help developers who need contact access within their applications, whether for communication, social apps, or business tools.

Thank you for considering this request!

Additional context

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[robingenz]

Thank you for your feature request. A Contacts plugin is actually already on our roadmap for this year. I will try to prioritize this.

[stephan-fischer]

Is it possible to move the current community repo to Capawesome-team and continue to maintain it there?
Then you could save yourself the double coding effort.

[robingenz]

Unfortunately not. We always create our plugins from scratch so that they meet our requirements and use our best practices. But I will be working on the plugin very soon.