Flutter for Beginners

Importing a contact from the phone

From the user perspective, inserting a phone number manually to make a favor request is not the preffered method, as it is susceptible to mistakes.

Importing a contact from the user's phone is a platform-specific task that, of course, has similarities. The final point is to launch the platform's contact selector and get a single contact from it.

The pub repository contains a set of plugins that help with this task. Some of them are as follows:

• contact_picker: Supports picking a phone number from the phone's contact list
• contacts_service: Provides an API that allows us to pick a contact and also manage them

If you remember, our Favors app allows the user to request a favor from another user by adding the ...