You can easily access the contact information stored on a device using the PhoneGap API. The Contacts API is an implementation of the W3C's Pick Contacts Intent API (an intent that enables access to a user's address book service from inside a web application). You can read more about the W3C specifications at http://www.w3.org/TR/contacts-api/.

The required functionalities of the Contacts API are provided by the Contacts plugin identified by the name cordova-plugin-contacts. This plugin supports major platforms.

For a complete list of all the supported platforms, refer to the documentation at http://docs.phonegap.com/en/edge/cordova_contacts_contacts.md.html#Contacts.

In order to start the interaction with the device contacts, you can use the create or find methods defined in the contacts object stored in the navigator object:

var contact = navigator.contacts.create(properties);
navigator.contacts.find(contactFields, contactSuccess, contactError, contactFindOptions);

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