Select all the phone numbers from the contacts

[ant...@gmail.com]

Hi,
I need to find a way to put all phone numbers that are in my phone in a variable of type list.
I was thinking to use the ActivityStarter component, but I don't know how to do it.
Could you help me please.
Thanks in advance,
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Kind regards
Antonio Crusco

[Taifun]

as far as I know you can't do that with MIT AppInventor

Taifun

[Enis]

Can't you just cycle through them programatically in a loop, adding each one to a list element?

[Jos Flores]

as far as I know the phone picker needs 'human intervention'. It's a
picker that needs the user to choose a value. No automation... but I
might be wrong...
cheers,
José



On 13 January 2014 17:27, Enis <shadow...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Can't you just cycle through them programatically adding each one to a list
> element, then go through the list and create the string?
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[Enis]

Wasn't sure...

OK after looking I don't see any way to automate it either... but I'm a programmer and there's got to be a way lol! ;)

[Ralph Morelli]

Hi Jose,

I think you are right. Last July we had a challenge session at the CSTA conference to develop an App Inventor app that picked a random contact from the phone's contact list and call it (where the user could decide to call or not).  But there's no way in App Inventor to just get a list of the phone's contacts.  Instead, the contacts are opened in a Android list view and you then can select one manually.  

So I ended up having to write an Android activity to return a list of the phone's contacts to App Inventor via the ActivityStarted component. App Inventor starts the activity and handles the interaction with the user.  

The attached zip file contains:

* RandomContactCaller.apk -- the whole app package

* RandomContact.apk -- The Android activity that returns a list of contacts

* RandomContact.java -- Java source code for the Android activity

* RandomContactCaller.aia -- The App Inventor source code

I thought I had written up a web doc describing this for the conference but I can't find it now??

Cheers, 

-- ralph

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[Antonio Crusco]

Thanks you all,

I'll try ralf suggestion as soon as possible,  if I understand something :)

Cheers,

Antonio

P.s Ralph - In case you find the document, could you send it me please

2014/1/14 Ralph Morelli <ram...@gmail.com>