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This is a contacts plugin for c:geo. It will only work with the c:geo app installed and allows direct access to your phonebook when clicking on a username in c:geo.
You can download and install the c:geo contacts plugin from Google Play.
After installation it will not show up as dedicated launchable icon on your device, but the plugin directly integrates the contacts function into c:geo. The reason to provide this function as a plugin rather than in the c:geo main app was, that older Android versions could only present app permission requests to the user upon installation but not during runtime. As the permission request to access the device contacts might not be easy to understand for many users, we decided to separate this function into a dedicated plugin. Meanwhile Android supports runtime permission, so we might decide to integrate
The contacts plugin needs the permission to access the contacts on your device. It will access your contacts in order to be able to find the contact data of other geocachers.
The c:geo contacts plugin will access your contacts only on your demand if you select the menu item “Open contact card” in c:geo. As long as you don’t use that function the plugin will never access any data of your contacts.
After you select “Open contact card” the c:geo contacts plugin will read your contact data to find a possible match of the geocachers name in the name or nickname field of your contact data. It will neither write to your contact data nor store any of your contact data within c:geo or the c:geo contacts plugin itself.
Your contact data will neither by copied into c:geo nor shared with third parties.
When you click on a username in c:geo (e.g. in the cache logbook) the menu will contain an item to open the corresponding contact card in your phone contacts. This will allow you to directly call or message the user.
The username of the person needs to be stored in the ‘name’ or ‘alias’ field of your contacts in order for the plugin to match the geocaching username to the contact. Please make sure you stored the geocaching name of the person like it is shown in c:geo in the ‘alias’ field of the contact in your contacts list.
Alternatively the plugin will also match if the geocaching name equals the full name stored in your contacts list.