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arsenk01
Posts: 91
Registered: 06-21-2011
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Call Contacts View from application

Hi All.

I have the following situation : in my application there must be some About button,which when somebody press must close program to background and open blackberry Contacts application to show contacts.

Is there any way to do this?

 

Regards,
Arsen
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simon_hain
Posts: 10,780
Registered: 07-29-2008
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Re: Call Contacts View from application

you can use contactlist.choose to choose a contact from the native app. otherwise you'll have to write an own ui for it or just launch the native app (without integration).
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arsenk01
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Re: Call Contacts View from application

OK,thanks a lot.

But how can I lunch a native app from my own(any code sample)?

Regards,
Arsen
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maadani
Posts: 552
Registered: 05-04-2011

Re: Call Contacts View from application

Hi Arsen,

 

Check out the Invoke API to lunch the address book application.

 

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