Contact list not accessing all contacts phonegap - ios

Question

I created a project in phonegap in appery.io framework. It is not cordova based project but I installed cordova library manually. I am fetching contacts list using Jquery but it is fetching only device contacts list not the sim contacts list. If i want to install cordova contacts plugin using commands then it is showing current directory is not a cordova based project. if anyone could help me out it would be much appreciated.

Answer 1

Hi use this to save all contacts in sdcard and display. (default Cordova contacts and file plugin)
document.addEventListener("deviceReady", deviceReady, false);
function deviceReady() {
navigator.contacts.find(["*"], function(contacts) {
//alert("contacts.length = " + contacts.length);
window.requestFileSystem(LocalFileSystem.PERSISTENT, 0, function(fileSystem) {
fileSystem.root.getFile("contacts.json", {create: true, exclusive: false}, function(fileEntry) {
fileEntry.createWriter(function(writer) {
writer.onwriteend = function(){
// Success Contacts saved to sdcard as a contacts.json file
// Now get and read the json file
var path = fileSystem.root.getFile("contacts.json", {create:false},gotFileEntry, fail);
// jquery
$.getJSON(path, function (data) {
user = data;
$.each(user, function (index, user) {
var all_item = '<p id="'+user.id+'">'+user.displayName+'</p>';
$('#allcontacts').append(all_item);
});
});
};
writer.write(JSON.stringify(contacts));
}, onError);
}, onError);
}, onError);
}, onError,{"multiple": true});}
function onError(){
alert("Error");
}