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

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

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

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 I'm afraid that your extended app will soon be outdated as it takes a lot of time to maintain an app and repository properly.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 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.

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....

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

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

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?

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..

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

@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.

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