Product

What is it ?

XlContactExport is an app dedicated to create a formatted Excel file containing all the major data fields of your Android smartphone database of contacts. It can be used as :

• a solution to give you an overview of all your contacts infos in a single file
• a contacts back-up solution, used conjointly with sister app XlContactImport
• a alternative solution to migrate the data from one android device to another, used conjointly with sister app XlContactImport
• ...or a solution to add or modify painlessly your contacts data, used conjointly with sister app XlContactImport. That’s my own favorite use now.

Try it without risk on your phone : export data, and look the resulting file with the file format appendix.

        

Originally, I conceived this solution in order to solve many problems that I had with my contacts datas, spread between multiple email contacts databases on different mail websites (some without syncing options…), around 100 phone contacts entries on my previous phone and even an old paper booklet with phones numbers ! I wanted to centralize all the data on my smartphone, keep it private (no phone number list of my friends on the web, please !), edit it, add data quickly and easily (I’m not good at taping fast on a touchscreen device…) and, top of it, get rid of the multiple syncing problems I had encountered with my smartphone (cut numbers, lost contacts, etc…). So, I came to the idea of a combination of 2 apps to do the job. Maybe this app will help you too ! (if you want to know, yes, I got rid of the old booklet and the old phone device)

And how ?

XlContactExport produce a formatted Excel file containing your contacts datas, where :

• each column reflect an information type. The data areas currently managed by the app are : person name, phone number data, contact account data, contact group data, note, favorite, email address data, instant messaging address data, postal address data, organization data, activity data, event data (birthdays...), website data, nickname data, relation data, SIP address data, structured name data
• each row reflect a person or a segment of the person data (for example : one line for the home datas and one for the work datas)

The excel file produced can be stored directly on the phone, uploaded on a FTP site, send as an email file attachment to an email address, or send to a Dropbox account (this last option is available with the pro version of the app). Others storage location are currently on study.

The excel file is produced using the classic Excel format (.xls / Excel 97 – 2003)(1) which can be edited using old and current Microsoft Office suite on computers, and alternatives like OpenOffice, or Thinkfree, Document to go, AlwaysOnPC and several others on the Android platform. The current Excel format (.xlsx) is supported in the pro version of this app (see below).

(1) On Android 1.6 only, export format is on Excel XML 2003 format, due to technical limitations of the platform.

Others features of this app

• automatic search path for the exported file
• automatic creation of a specific path
• automatically formatted name using date format
• direct export to FTP site
• export as an file attachment of an email, using your smartphone's email app to send it
• direct export to a Dropbox account (pro version)
• optional vCard 2.1 generation in the same time and in a subdirectory
• optional header column line in the exported file
• trace mode to help the report of strange errors on data export on specific phones

Versions

"XlContactExport" has been released in two versions :

• a free version, with all essentials functions. This version contains ads under standard banner form.
• a paid pro version, with no ads, and new functions for advanced users :
• Xlsx format support !
• Dropbox support !
• Improved work speed !
• Various others vCard formats available (vCard 2.1, 3.1, 4.0 in plain text, xCard, jCard) !

Do not hesitate to try first the standard version, before purchasing the pro version !

Users of the app before version 1.1.0 : please read what has changed beginning with version 1.1.0 here.

Compatibility

XlContactExport has been tested on Android 1.6, 2.x, 3.x, 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, 8.x devices. Tests on Android 10.x are currently in progress, but as the early results show, the app should work fine too.

The current version of XlContactExport is designed to work on 2.3.x (and above) devices, but a older compatible version with Android 1.6, 2.0.x, 2.1.x and 2.2.x, with all the main functions, is still available when you download the app from Google Play.

Permissions needed

Here are the permissions needed on your device in order for this app to work properly :

• android.permission.INTERNET
• android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE
• android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
• android.permission.READ_CONTACTS

Download

Download the app on Google Play, the new incarnation of the Android Market.

And after the download ?

I suggest you to read the tutorial.

Future of the app

Improvements and new features will come with future versions (I already have some ideas to design), but do not hesitate to contact me if you have ideas that could improve this app.

Important note

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN
ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.