{"id":11971,"date":"2019-08-15T13:02:11","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T21:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/?p=11971"},"modified":"2019-08-15T13:02:11","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T21:02:11","slug":"aa5ud5p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/akams-aa5ud5p\/","title":{"rendered":"Add\u00a0Contact Features in 4 Lines of Code with Xamarin.Essentials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Integrating contact functionality has been a common task that I have been asked to develop for mobile apps over the years. This has ranged from a full contacts directory to simple contact information inside an app. Most requested features include the ability to call the contact, send an sms or email, and navigate to a location. In the past, I would have to implement several native APIs myself or install several libraries that could provide the functionality. Today, with Xamarin.Essentials all of this functionality is available in a <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/essentials\/index?WT.mc_id=xecontacts-xamarinblog-jamont\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">single library<\/a> and can be implemented in just <b>4 lines<\/b> of code! So, let\u2019s build a contacts application with Xamarin.Essentials and <a href=\"https:\/\/dotnet.microsoft.com\/apps\/xamarin\/xamarin-forms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Xamarin.Forms<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Integrating contact functionality has been a common task that I have been asked to develop for mobile apps over the years. This has ranged from a full contacts directory to simple contact information inside an app. Most requested features include the ability to call the contact, send an sms or email, and navigate to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":836,"featured_media":8227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allskus"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Integrating contact functionality has been a common task that I have been asked to develop for mobile apps over the years. This has ranged from a full contacts directory to simple contact information inside an app. Most requested features include the ability to call the contact, send an sms or email, and navigate to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/836"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}