First, a big thanks for providing the app. I was searching for an open source contact app handles the address entries correctly.
And your fork does that well.

But now the "but": I was confused when I tried to change an address the first time.

Even though the address was shown in the contact app, when I selected the edit button, the address data was empty.
When I left the edit mode, the address was shown again.

It took me a while to find the cause of this "apparent bug". The contact app contains the information of 3 accounts: my primary contacts provided by a carddav server using DAVx5, Signal, and Telegram. When I go into edit mode, the "Signal" account is selected, which contains no address data.

Worst of all, the used account is at the bottom of the screen, well hidden.

Is there a way to configure the contact app so editing a contact uses my primary address book from DAVx5 instead of using the Signal account?

Simple Contacts v6.22.7 Pro.

Devices

• Huawei Mate 9 running Android v9+
• macOS Sonoma v14.5
• VPS Linux AlmaLinux v8.10.0 STANDARD vzcontainer

Apps

• cPanel's v120.0.10
• Roundcube Webmail v1.6.6
  • NOTE: Preferences -> CardDAV -> “Use CATEGORIES instead of KIND=group (RFC6350) when creating new contact groups” is switched off
• Apple Contacts v16.0
  • NOTE: using vCard Format: “3.0” and Mac is setup with Language & Region as “Australia"
• DAVx5 v4.4.0.1-ose
  • NOTE: using CardDAV Contact group method -> "Groups are separate vCards"

Issues

I’ve noticed 4 issues I suspect Simple Contacts, or perhaps DAVx5, is creating in Roundcube & Apple Contacts':

1. Something between the four apps is merging the address fields' from their individual fields into the “Street” field and renders everything horizontally but looks the same in Simple Contacts. I can repair this in either Roundcube or Apple Contacts' and the corrected format will remain.
   A. Apple
   Incorrect:
   
   Correct:
   
   B. Roundcube
   Incorrect:
   
   Correct:
   

2. Given the lack of ability to select URL type (e.g. Home, Work, etc.) in Simple Contacts, when a contact is sent via DAVx5 to the VPS it changes to “x-homepage” in Roundcube or Apple Contacts' regardless of its previous type.
   A. Apple
   
   B. Roundcube.
   
   C. Simple
   

3. The order of the fields are not maintained in Simple Calendar from the order they are entered, regardless of the 3 interfaces in which they are entered. As well, in all instanced the 2nd address should have the Type of "Other" so something is causing it to change to "Address" in Apple Contacts, which you can see in the Apple images above.
   A. Correct
   [City], [State] [Post Code]
   [Country]

   is converted to

   B. Incorrect

   [Post Code] [City]
   [Country] [(State)]

   C. Simple
   

4. After viewing a contact in “Edit” mode and leaving the mode with the app’s Back arrow or using Android Back button, the contact is updated/re-sent to the VPS and Item # 1, # 2 & # 3 result. I would think going back without clicking the tick icon ✓ would work like a “Cancel” and thus no changes. That has been my experience with other apps with similar interactions.

If I do not sync my Android device, I’m not experiencing these issues. How can I troubleshoot this further to determine the cause? Please note, I am not a developer so I have limited skills.

I have never used any other contacts app beside the original simple contacts app but it would be great to have this feature. Personally, since i use other launcher, and that launcher have a dedicated widget for calendars but it only shows local & caldav. It would be great to be able to have the birthdays on a local calendar. Thx

Hi @stephanritscher ,

looking at the latest development it seems like staying disconnected from the original SMT project or joing here https://github.com/FossifyOrg might be a good move?

BR
Stephan (really enjoing this version of Simple contacts)

Hi,

I use your version since I migrate to GrapheneOS. The last version I use before was 6.22.4.2, installed directly from Github via Obtainium. I update yesterday to 6.22.7.2 and lost access to all contacts in my work account, synchronised by Nine or Outlook. The accounts are not longer presented in the filter. I rolled back to 6.22.4.2.

CU

I just found an iasue were when using multiple contact lists to manage contacts, should you delete a contact that happens to be in two or more lists, the app will delete the contact from all lists and not just the one currently being viewed.

Yes, I know more than one list can be viewed at a time, one of my favorite features. This issue occurs even with one contact list selected.

On the contact info screen, format postal addresses depending on the country given as part of this address. Basically each one should be displayed the same way you would write it on an envelope to be sent to this address. This wouldn’t change the data stored in the separate fields of the structured ADR value. It would however be nice if the formatted address were included in a VCF export as LABEL parameter.

According to the Universal Postal Union the country name should be written in either English or French, which gives a manageable list of strings to check against. Some of the formatting is already taken care of by the data structure, e.g. placement of street name and house number in relation to each other. What remains is the order of the six data fields (a post office box should be incompatible with a street address) and the insertion of line breaks.

This is probably the kind of thing that will omit a few edge cases at first but with a default format to fall back on it would never be worse than the current behavior. And covering most cases shouldn’t be too much work once a general process for looking up and applying a format exists.

This is actually something I thought was already implemented because saving an address previously created with another app changes how it is formatted on the contact info screen, including capitalizing the country name and displaying the postal code in front of the locality. Since almost all of my contacts with postal addresses are German ones, this is the correct formatting. But as it turns out, the same formatting is used for all addresses, independent of country. (Note: Please let me know if this behavior somehow depends on my phone setup. I think it’s unlikely as I use US localization instead of German.)

https://github.com/stephanritscher/Simple-Contacts/releases/tag/6.22.4.1

ref: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/jobs/4761265762#L804

I don't know why, but I end have the same contact multiple times on device storage, and no way to merge them,
each time I edit a contact, it seems to create another entry of the same contact....

I use device storage

I've got a v.3.0 vCard that was exported from Google. I note that I'm able to import that card to Nextcloud with no errors reported.

Importing to SCP-SE, I see that there are no "groups" recognized. I then export from SCP-SE. During the export, I see three messages flash by:

Exporting  [pause]
java.lang.illegalArgument.exception: pr...  [cut off] [pause]
Exporting successful

I'm looking for logs to find out more, but I don't see any. Is there some way for me to generate them?

Then, I look at the cards in a text editor. I see that all the "CATEGORIES:..." fields in the v3.0 card, are missing from the v4.0 card. I note that field is apparently "Optional" in both versions. I'm wondering what field may be used if I were to create "groups" in the "Groups" tab (bottom right).

Hello!

I'm glad to see a fork of SimpleContacts that tries to workaround some upstream "limitations".

When I saw the version on F-Droid I installed it right away. The idea to share contacts data only among SimplMobile is great, but it also comes with certain annoying "bugs".

One of them was the crash when showing contacts with just a company name, that was just fixed. Thank you!

Another one is about deleting all contacts with the same name without any warning and no reasonable explanation... This was reported a long time ago but the issue was closed as "won't fix":

SimpleMobileTools#872

If you are willing to fix this too and need help, I can try to help. I don't know much Kotlin but maybe enough to point where it happens...

Regards

Did the tibbi developer of original simple contacts pro (from simple mobile tools) reject them?

Hi! Thank you for taking the initiative and adding the separate address fields. This was a constant mess over the years and different address books, and has now finally been resolved.

I've just noticed that the Simple Mobile Tools now have an active fork and am wondering if you are aware of that. It would be great if your changes were merged there, to have all the improvements in one app.

Their repo is here:
https://github.com/FossifyOrg/Contacts

Cheers

this issue comes when after a fresh android install, I tried to import my contacts, I could import them into app storage, but device storage was not available, I had to use /e/os builtin contact manager to create a contact and then device storage was available....

Feature description

On my Lenovo Tab the contact App let you choose which Details you like to share

Why do you want this feature?

Only share the data which i want to share

Additional information

Copy of FossifyOrg/Contacts#82

Hello

I appreciate your efforts and extended features of the original app. Have you considered contributing back to the origin via pull request? I'm afraid that your extended app will soon be outdated as it takes a lot of time to maintain an app and repository properly.

Additionally, your contribution would solve some issues and requested features on the original app:

• SimpleMobileTools#60
• SimpleMobileTools#364
• SimpleMobileTools#696
• SimpleMobileTools#678
• SimpleMobileTools#845

What do you think?

Best regards

I can change the colour of the app-icon in the upstream version in the app-settings.

However it seems that the icon colour in this version has been "hardcoded".
The option to change the colour is still there.. only it does nothing.

It would be nice if the setting acually worked..

@Glaser-Martin It seems our discussion in SimpleMobileTools#156 was not welcome. We can continue in this issue (now that I found out how to enable issues for a fork).
As a short

• You suggested to create an F-Droid package for this fork and I agreed.
• We discussed that master branch will be the package to be published while a separate branch structured-address will only contain the new feature in case a later upstream integration would be considered.
• This results in a merge chain SimpleMobileTools/Simple-Contacts:master -> stephanritscher/Simple-Contacts:structured-address -> stephanritscher/Simple-Contacts:structured-address.
• You assembled places to change which I adapted here: dc4c4ae
• F-Droid seems to use tags for releases and SimpleMobileTools uses 3-digit releases (e.g. 6.19.1), so you suggested to add a fourth digit to keep the base release as reference and have flexibility of multiple releases per base release. I created 6.19.1.1 as first own tag.

it should be great to support "unknown fields" so that if a contact app have some fields that aren't currently supported, the modification isn't lost...

/e/os contact app has lot of fields that simple contact don't have (website for example) but miss the group information simple contact has, which is really useful when you have tooo many contacts due to lot of activities...

Hi valued rebels,

as you encouragingly added the detailed address to Simple Contacts, I would ask if you maybe could add another RFC compliant feature Tibor doesn't want to add: Proper Handling of Full Name attribute.

I'm using SC with my selfhosted Nextcloud, synched with DAVx5, and whatever I set for Full Name in Nextcloud is overwritten my next change made and synched via NC.

I personally set my contact's Full Name to "Last Name, Titles etc. First Name", as I'm using these contacts via Bluetooth for my car, via my Fritzbox router to DECT-CATiq compliant phones etc. and of course a last name based search is the easiest.

Regards,
Michael