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Fredy31
Fredy31

Reputation: 2817

Add a contact to the mobile device Address book from an HTML webpage

I'm currently building a site where, with one touch, you should be able to add a contact to your IPhone/Android Address book. The website is currently HTML5, but Javascript and/or PhP options could be implemented.

So is there a way that on the click of a link, the mobile device will open the Adress book already filled with the info I want it to have (Name, EMail Address, Street Address, Phone number).

I've looked everywhere to only find ways to program apps that would do the same thing. I want to make it from a webpage. Anywhere I can learn how to do this?

PS: Currently, I'm trying with everything in a .VCF file that could be downloaded on the click... this seems to lead me nowhere at the moment.

Upvotes: 12

Views: 42682

Answers (4)

Jatin
Jatin

Reputation: 51

To create a VCF; paste below code in notepad. Then change the contact information part. Save it as vcf.

BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
N:Smith;John;;Mr.;
FN:John Smith
ORG:Acme Corporation
TITLE:Sales Manager
TEL;TYPE=WORK,VOICE:(123) 456-7890
ADR;TYPE=WORK:;;123 Main St.;Anytown;CA;12345;USA
EMAIL:[email protected]
END:VCARD

Now upload this vcf file to a hosting server and get a link of that. Now this link can be share anywhare on the internet across the devices and platforms. once clicked on this link from a mobile phone. it will ask to save it as contact directly.

Upvotes: 5

Enrique
Enrique

Reputation: 4833

I'm was searching for this too, and I found only this "near" solution:

  1. Make a QR for your contact card
  2. Use a link like:
    http://qrdroid.com/decode?q=[FULL-QR-IMAGE-URL] for it
  3. If the user has QR Droid installed, it will decode the URL.

a video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-2D3uCV2bE

Personally I found that solution a bit buggy, this is safer:

  1. The user saves the QR image from the browser (long-click, save image)
  2. Open the image saved
  3. Click "Menu"->Share->Decode with QR Droid

a video here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws99exsZEIs

CONS:
it's counter intuitive
you need android and QR droid installed
I don't know if it's possible with iphone, and other mobiles.

Upvotes: 0

Mohsen
Mohsen

Reputation: 65785

W3C defined Contacts API as a working draft but as far as I tested it's not supported in iOS devices(I have iPad with iOS4 and iPhone with iOS 5). You should test some android devices and tell us if they support Contacts API or not. That would be useful for future readers.

In case you have contacts api supported you can do this:

if(navigator.contacts){
   var mycontacts = [];
   navigator.contacts( ['emails.value', 'name', 'friends'],
                         function(contacts) { 
                           for(i in contacts) {

                               mycontacts.push(contacts[i]);

                         } );
}

Upvotes: 3

bembii
bembii

Reputation: 259

The first Idea i got was to use for Android (most Android-User, have a Google-Account) the Google-Contact-API.

Upvotes: 1

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