Best approach for searching on phone number about cordova-plugin-contacts

[BatteryAcid]

I am currently facing a similar problem, I was thinking to take the last 10 digits of the phone number then insert wildcards like 555%666%7777. The underlying Android code will surround the search text with %. This is definitely not ideal but would work for US phone numbers. This does NOT work for iOS.

After working with the current state of this plugin for the last 6 months (it's deprecated and not maintained) I would avoid using it unless you're doing something simple. For updating contacts it's very buggy and required a ton of work arounds/hacks to get functional.

Good luck!

[andersborgabiro]

I didn't know about the %xxxx% thing. Skipping (extra) %xxxx% in my code worked fine. I still do x%x%x%x... though.

Is there any trustworthy and maintained plugin that's might have solved number search better?

Clearly, the call manager (whether Android or iOS) has no problem finding numbers, so there's a method somewhere in the system, but maybe not accessible via API.

[BatteryAcid]

Is there any trustworthy and maintained plugin that's might have solved number search better?

I'm not aware of any such plugin.

Right, I think your solution should work fine for Android, and if you're saving phone numbers on iOS, I would suggest making sure it conforms to the standard (xxx) xxx-xxxx otherwise the search functionality may not hit on the numbers. I don't think the underlying cordova-contacts code matches the different formats for you.

[andersborgabiro]

I use an SMS reception module that doesn't work for iOS, so that's not an option anyway.

Thanks.

[timbru31]

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