Access to contacts on the phone

Is there a work-around to get the details of a contact in the Phone's contacts?开发者_运维知识库 With the api you can only access the email and phonenumber but that is definitely not enough.

Currently, access to additional contact information is not available.

This was a deliberate design decision to protect the security of a persons contacct information and to prevent applications getting access to this data without the users knowledge.

It has, however, been hinted that additional contact details will be available in future versions of the platform.

If you really need more details about a contact you will have to wait until the API is extended in this area.

To be honest, if it doesn't improve - all the way to full (at least readonly) access to all contact details it is discouraging and stifling a great deal of good apps that should be made...

Many app developers would reject it for this reason alone...