iPhone Contacts sync

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iPhone Contacts sync

Post by wunder » Tue Nov 20, 2012 9:22 pm

Hello,

My company sells a very popular Address Book product for Windows that we're currently porting to the Mac using Livecode. I'm also interested in syncing iphone/ipad contacts with our software.

The built in mobilegetcontactdata and mobileaddcontact would probably allow me to do what I need, but the problem is they open the contact user interface function on the devices. I need a silent method for this.

Alternatively I read that the iphone contact database uses SQLite, but it appears the /private/var/mobile/Library/AddressBook folder is not available for read or write.

Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

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Re: iPhone Contacts sync

Post by monte » Sun Dec 02, 2012 9:12 am

If the built in contacts stuff doesn't do what you want then your would need an external. There was one done (more comprehensive than the engine imeplemenation) but it was never released by the developer due to lack of interest.

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Re: iPhone Contacts sync

Post by wunder » Sun Dec 02, 2012 4:26 pm

Who was the developer? I'm very interested!

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Re: iPhone Contacts sync

Post by monte » Sun Dec 02, 2012 11:58 pm

Mike Doub had it done by Chris Bohnert. Like I said though it didn't get released.
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Re: iPhone Contacts sync

Post by wunder » Tue Dec 04, 2012 10:08 pm

Any chance you can give me Chris's contact information? I tried to find him in the forums without success.

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Re: iPhone Contacts sync

Post by wunder » Tue Dec 04, 2012 10:09 pm

Never mind- google to the rescue. Apparently the search in the livecode forum is not complete.

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Re: iPhone Contacts sync

Post by kaveh1000 » Thu Dec 25, 2014 9:28 am

Hi Wunder

Did you ever produce your App for Contacts on Mac? I was thinking of something similar as Contacts is so hard to work with...
Kaveh

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