Contacts

Tip

This article covers Uno-specific information for Windows.ApplicationModel.Contacts namespace. For a full description of the feature and instructions on using it, consult the UWP documentation: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/windows.applicationmodel.contacts

• The Windows.ApplicationModel.Contacts.ContactPicker namespace provides classes for picking contacts from the OS contact store.

ContactPicker

The ContactPicker class allows picking contacts from the OS contact store.

To check whether the class is supported on the target platform, use IsSupportedAsync() method:

if (await ContactPicker.IsSupportedAsync())
{
    // you can use ContactPicker
}

To pick contacts call either the PickContactAsync() or PickContactsAsync() method. Uno Platform supports picking multiple contacts on Windows, iOS, WebAssembly and Tizen. On Android we currently support picking a single contact only (for simplicity, the PickContactsAsync() method can still be called, but will still let the user pick only a single contact).

Platform-specific

Android

Your app must declare android.permission.READ_CONTACTS permission:

[assembly: UsesPermission("android.permission.READ_CONTACTS")]

Tizen

Your app must declare http://tizen.org/privilege/contact.read and http://tizen.org/privilege/appmanager.launch permissions in the app manifest:

<privileges>
    <privilege>http://tizen.org/privilege/contact.read</privilege>
    <privilege>http://tizen.org/privilege/appmanager.launch</privilege>
</privileges>