Hi Stephan,
On Android, there are two types of contact ID: the individual contact ID,
and the lookup key. Android gives you the option of looking at aggregated
contacts (that is, merged contact details from multiple accounts), or
individual contacts. The ID that you are using in your original exam
Yup it does - found that out during debugging (the app would initially just
crash).
In fact I managed to reverse engineer the issue - I just went searching for
a given email over the entire address book, then searched for it using the
traditional approach, and compared ids.
While data.Data.LastPat
On Jul 23, 2012, at 1:52 PM, Stephan Steiner wrote:
> Here's my problem - in OnActivityResult
>
>var book = new AddressBook(this);
>book.PreferContactAggregation = true;
>
>Contact myContact = book.Load(data.Data.LastPathSegment);
>
> myContact rem
I've seen the previous thread - and not much else on the topic. So it seems
extracting information from contacts is still a pain. Then I discovered
Xamarin.Mobile and figured it would be the solution to all my problems.
So I wrote some code that is basically the same as
https://gist.github.com/14
