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Alexander Sorokin commented on CB-11038:
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[~tmuecksch] hey I know it's been a long time (almost a year) but if you're still around,
could you please check if my proposed change fixes your issue?
> Android: Automatically created (nonsense) contacts are retrieved too
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> Key: CB-11038
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-11038
> Project: Apache Cordova
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Plugin Contacts
> Affects Versions: 2.0.0
> Environment: Android 6 Marshmallow
> Reporter: Tobias Mücksch
> Assignee: Alexander Sorokin
> Labels: triaged
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> For some reason, Android (or Gmail) creates a contact for each email a user receives
(via gmail). *By default those Contacts are hidden in the systems contacts-app.*
> The problem is; the cordova-plugin-contacts retrieves those useless contacts together
with the ordinary contacts that are actually of interest; *even if they aren't real contacts
and in most cases of literally +no interest+*. Additionally this is different behaviour from
the iOS version.
> You can spot these "ghost contacts" when you open your contacts app, click on the settings
(top right corner), and then on "Contacts to display" -> "Customize" -> Google ->
"My Contacts".
> In my opinion there should be at least an option to filter out specific contacts sources.
It's very annoying to have plenty of *+nonsense+* contacts (around 50 in my case). For example
I have some contacts in the list for email addresses I have received invoices from or even
newsletters.
> Side note: I'm not 100% percent sure where these contacts come from. Either android or
the gmail web app.
> *I guess filtering by this attribute should do the trick:*
> [ContactsContract.Contacts.IN_VISIBLE_GROUP|http://developer.android.com/reference/android/provider/ContactsContract.Contacts.html]
> ??An indicator of whether this contact is supposed to be visible in the UI. "1" if the
contact has at least one raw contact that belongs to a visible group; "0" otherwise.??
> Here is someone who describes a similar issue (not development related): [How to filter
my google contacts?|http://android.stackexchange.com/questions/43198/how-to-filter-my-google-contacts]
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