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New Android ‘People API’ seeks to make managing contact data a snap for devs
June 05, 2025
This week on their officialblog, Android developers announced the introduction of the People API, which will seek to replace the current Contacts API. This new system, which drops the GData protocol in favor of some new ones that should make it easier for users to grant and restrict access to their personal information on an individual or categorical basis.
Laurence Moroney, Developer Advocate for Android, sums it up like this:
This basically streamlines the gathering of contact data, trimming the previous method that required tapping two different APIs, Google+ and Contacts. People API also exposes new data that apps weren’t able to access before, such as phone numbers, e-mail addresses, physical addresses, and even birthdays. The user, of course, will have to have given permission for this information to be accessed.
Google hopes that Android developers will be eager to take advantage of the new capabilities this API offers and be inspired to come up with new and creative uses for it. If you’d like to read more about this new release, check out the blog posthere. In the meantime, what are your thoughts regarding this new API? A long-awaited boon to the dev community, or just business as usual? Let us know what you think in the comments below!
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