Accessing the iPhone/Android address book through Rhodes

Question

Is it possible to build a library or an application with Rhodes that connects to an iPhone's/Android's native address book and uses those address books natively (e.g. still has the available API for creating groups, retrieving, updating, deleting contacts etc.)?

Answer 1

You can see all available PIM API interaction in the Rho documentation here. If what you want to do (e.g. groups) is not yet available, consider contacting the developers with an enhancement request, which you can track on their Pivotal Tracker project.

Answer 2

Add 'pim' capability to app's build.yml

capabilities:
  - pim

Then it is possible to work with contacts from ruby:

contact = {'first_name' => 'Alexey', 'email_address' => '[email protected]'}
contact = Rho::RhoContact.create!(contact)

contacts = Rho:RhoContact.find(:all)

See more details at official Rhodes docs.