Contact Images

A contact image is a BitmapData object attached to the Contact instance. There is no size restriction on these images and they can be a decent sized image or could be as small as an icon.

contact.image;

Contact images can be retrieved as part of the contact list retrieval however we suggest you don't use this method as it may lead to a very large memory load in your application.

To load all the contact images:

Contacts.service.getContactListAsync( true ); 

Instead we advise that you only load the images of the contacts you require, using the second paramter to the getContactDetails function to indicate you wish to load the image:

Contacts.service.getContactDetails( contactId, true );

Additionally you can use the getContactImage function to directly load the BitmapData image for the specified contact:

var image:BitmapData = Contacts.service.getContactImage( contactId );