How to get a vCard vcf file into Android contacts from website

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I m trying to add a vCard from a web link to the user s contact list on Android 2 2   When I direct the user to  vcf file  all I get is text output in the mobile browser   I have confirmed that the files is being transferred with MIME type text v-card   This seems like it should be pretty simple to do   Any ideas

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I had problems with importing a VERSION 4 0 vcard file on Android 7  LineageOS  with the standard Contacts app   Since this is on the top search hits for  android vcard format not supported   I just wanted to note that I was able to import them with the Simple Contacts app  Play or F-Droid

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AFAIK Android doesn t support vCard files out of the Box at least not until 2 2   You could use the app vCardIO to read vcf files from your SD card and save to you contacts  So you have to save them on your SD card in the first place and import them afterwards   vCardIO is also available trough the market

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This can be used to download the file to your SD card Tested with Android version 2 3 3 and 4 0 3          php                             lt  php         this php file  example saved as name is vCardDL php  is placed in my html subdirectory                header  Content-Type  application octet-stream            the above line is needed or else the  vcf file will be downloaded as a  htm file      header  Content-disposition  attachment  filename  xxxxxxxxxx vcf                     header  Content-type  application vcf    remove this so android doesn t complain that it does not have a valid application      readfile     aaa bbb xxxxxxxxxx vcf           The above is the parth to where the file is located - if in same directory as the php  then just the file name   gt            html                            lt FONT COLOR   CC0033  gt  lt a href  vCardDL php  gt Download vCARD lt  A gt  lt  FONT gt

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I m running 2 2 and there is no change  reports from others on 2 3 say the same  Android  bug  does not handle a  vcf nor a link to such a file on a web page via port 80  neither via http headers or direct streaming  It just is NOT SUPPORTED AT ALL

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What i have also noticed is that you have to save the file as Unicode  UTF-8  no BOM in an Windows format with CRLF  Carriage Return  Line Feed   Because if you don t  the import will break   Saying something about weird chars in the file   Good luck    Sid

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Just to let you know  I just tried it using a vCard 2 1 file created according to the vCard 2 1 spec  I found that vCard 2 1  despite being an old version  already covered everything I needed  including a base64-encoded photo and international character sets   It worked perfectly on my unmodified Android 4 1 1 device  Galaxy S3   It also worked on an old iPhone 3GS  iOS 5  via the Evernote app  and a coworker s unmodified old Android 2 1 device  You only need to set the Content-disposition to attachment as suggested above   A minor problem was that I triggered the VCF download using a QR code  which I scanned with the Microsoft Tag app  That app told me Android couldn t handle the text x-vcard media type  or just text vcard  no matter   Once I opened the link in a Web browser  I tried Chrome and the Android default browser   it worked fine

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There is now an import functionality on Android ICS 4 0 4   First you must save your  vcf file on a storage  USB storage  or SDcard   Android will scan the selected storage to detect any  vcf file and will import it on the selected address book  The functionality is in the option menu of your contact list    Note  Be careful while doing this   Android will import EVERYTHING that is a  vcf in your storage  It s all or nothing  and the consequence can be trashing your address book

[android] How to get a vCard (.vcf file) into Android contacts from website

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