Addressbook API

The functionality of the address book is achieved using the ContactList and Contact classes only. Contacts in the PIM API support a subset of the fields of the vCard format version 3.0 specified in IETF RFC 2426. The following example shows a vCard for John Smith in ASCII format:

BEGIN:VCARD
FN:John Smith
N:Smith;John;;;MD
TEL;TYPE=WORK:555-7352
TEL;TYPE=HOME:555-4321
END:VCARD

Note

More information about IETF RFC 2426 can be found at

http://www.nic.mil/ftp/rfc/rfc2426.txt

Contacts and Their Fields

As mentioned earlier, the interface Contact extending the PIMElement interface represents a single contact. A contact consists of several fields such as name, phone number, or birthday. These fields are of different data types, depending ...

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