# Accessing contacts, redirecting to apps and Firebase **URL:** \ **Category:** Questions about Thunkable X\ **Created:** [June 9, 2020, 9:52am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/accessing-contacts-redirecting-to-apps-and-firebase/604327 "2020-06-09T09:52:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![browncoatjustice52](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/browncoatjustice52/32/71039_2.png) [@browncoatjustice52](https://community.thunkable.com/u/browncoatjustice52)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2020, 9:52am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/accessing-contacts-redirecting-to-apps-and-firebase/604327/1 "2020-06-09T09:52:45Z")
**Can we access a user’s contacts?** **Also, can we redirect them to Phone (Application in Android) using just UI???** _In Firebase, as we add a new app they ask you for the platform I usually take web application, but their are a lot others like: Unity, Android, iOS. So what happens when I choose them for a Thunkable App, and what is the big deal about them. 🤔_??? Please help me… ---
**Author:** ![gobassky](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/gobassky/32/77019_2.png) [@gobassky](https://community.thunkable.com/u/gobassky)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2020, 5:38am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/accessing-contacts-redirecting-to-apps-and-firebase/604327/2 "2020-06-10T05:38:19Z")
Interesting question. I also want to know the answer. But I suspect the back-end native codes Thunkable used to interface with Firebase are using web APIs which is independent of platform language. I can understand why its this way because otherwise, Thunkable need to translate our blocks using Unity, or Java, of Swift …etc… ---
**Author:** ![browncoatjustice52](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/browncoatjustice52/32/71039_2.png) [@browncoatjustice52](https://community.thunkable.com/u/browncoatjustice52)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2020, 8:49am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/accessing-contacts-redirecting-to-apps-and-firebase/604327/3 "2020-06-10T08:49:27Z")
_Exactly, I am making a chat app with the features of Outlook, Skype, WhatsApp, Skype For Business._ _So need to have a lot of features, need to access contacts, register huge amount of data into Firebase, redirect users to Contacts in case they wanna add people into their contacts also I need to give warning if the person chatting with, is not in their contacts, thus I need to access contacts and a lot of stuff._ **Here is my project link: [Thunkable](https://x.thunkable.com/copy/895e9cdad9603a8b8adc508e5fb887e4)** **Not ready yet need to do a lot of work…** But you can use this as for an idea of what this app is about… 🤠 I hope this project link was of some help… 😑 This problem has been irritating me for months!! > _ **This is a question not solved by the community yet please help everyone…** _ **The question for firebase troubles me a lot…** ---
**Author:** ![ioannis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/ioannis/32/146956_2.png) [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 11:27am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/accessing-contacts-redirecting-to-apps-and-firebase/604327/4 "2024-11-08T11:27:27Z")