Conversations address book integration does not work

[contrapunctus-1]

The XMPP client Conversations lets you associate an XMPP contact with a contact in your phone address book. This opens a contacts app and the user selects a contact (or "Create new contact" - I did the former).

With Google Contacts, the contact editor is opened and the XMPP address is added to a "Jabber" field - the user then saves.

With Simple Contacts, selecting a contact only opened the contact editor but with no Jabber field. I tried again after enabling "IM" in the settings [1] - but the field remained blank.

• Simple Contacts v6.5.1 from F-Droid
• Conversations v2.6.3+fcr from F-Droid
• Nokia 6.1 (TA-1089)
• Android v9

[1] I hope Simple Contacts, some day, "takes a hint" wherever possible that a user wants a certain field and enables it - please see https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/Simple-Contacts/issues/248#issuecomment-574012858

[ltguillaume]

I just ran into this. It's rather critical for proper use of an XMPP client such as Conversations or Blabber to have this working properly.

Edit: here's the code for the Intent: https://github.com/iNPUTmice/Conversations/blob/0fc191d0040e02fd809e4a634f77784b50ebd236/src/main/java/eu/siacs/conversations/ui/ContactDetailsActivity.java#L133