I don't know if this is possible.
I want to save a number after launching the app in the first view(Of course prompting the user).
This will be used when sending a message directly from the app.
Anyone tried doing this?
I believe you can do this by utilizing the Address Book UI framework in conjunction with the Address Book framework. The Address Book UI framework facilitates the displaying, editing, selecting, and creating of records in the Address Book database, and uses the Address Book framework in the background.
So in your case, you'd launch the Address Book UI on startup.
Hope this helps!
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I am developing an apps where i am getting some information regarding contacts example
Name:xyz
Phone number:1234556677
So how do i store this information directly into addressBook of an iphone.
NOTE:I dont want the page to navigate to address book and add manually.What i need is i have already have information available like name and phone number. i have a button, click on button directly it should be stored into address book.
i am stuck in this from past couple of days can anyone help me in solving this.
I have gone though many links but all those take me to add contact.What i really need is to store the information which is already available to me into addressbook.
iPhone : Insert Contact to Address book without any User Interface
This is another user having the same problem.. found this within 1 minute (third link if you google for "iOS add contact")
Here is a tutorial which might be helpful to you.
http://www.modelmetrics.com/tomgersic/iphone-programming-adding-a-contact-to-the-iphone-address-book/
I need to implement a message service into my app that works exactly like this:
users register with a nickname within the app
they can add contacts (just nicknames) and send them a message by just specifying their nickname
they can send a message whenever they want, and the message is stored on a server until when the receiver connects to internet.
when a message is received, a push notification is triggered.
So, the messages work pretty much like emails, however instead of using email addresses, we only use usernames. I'm also going to build my own back-end for it.
Which APIs should I use or which 3rd party framework can I use ?
And any tip ?
N.B. I need to make it work with iOS 3.0 as well.
and in the future I will develop an Android app, so the nicknames should be unique and I should be able to send messages from iPhone to Android devices within the same app.
thanks
I've successfully used the Three20 library and would recommend giving it a try. It's an open source spin-off originated by the author of the Facebook app. It features a bunch of additional GUI components that might be useful to your project, like a message composer that resembles the one used by Apple's email app.
Also, Three20 features a nice framework for handling navigation within your app. Currently, the biggest drawback seems to be that certain features don't play well with the iPad API.
The answer seems to be Push Notifications
I've read that it's possible to share information between iPhone applications using the Addressbook. In fact, TextExpander Touch seems to be able to do just this by looking at their SDK how-to:
http://www.freshblocks.com/tutorials/how-to-add-textexpander-touch-sdk-to-iphone-apps/
Can anyone provide a concrete example of how this is achieved? I've read that it involves creating a 'dummy' contact - but I don't see any such dummy contacts on my phone.
I would instead use inter-app communication using custom app URLs ala: http://mobileorchard.com/apple-approved-iphone-inter-process-communication/
I would imagine polluting a user's address book with dummy contacts would be severely frowned upon by Apple/rejection-worthy.
I have seen the Contacts in iPhone Simulator.
I want to create an application similar like that.
Does apple provide open source of that " Contacts " application.
Similarly, Does apple provide source code of " Safari ",
So we can create our own browser.
They don't provide the source code. You have a UIWevView that you can use to render web pages using WebKit, and you can access the address book information by using the Address Book framework.
To create "Safari" You can just use a UIWebview with a tool bar. It's rather trivial. a tutorial is here:
http://icodeblog.com/2008/12/19/iphone-coding-learning-about-uiwebviews-by-creating-a-web-browser/
Contacts is slightly more involved, you can use the Adress Book Frameworks. There are Cocoa Touch classes to bring specific view controllers into existence. These are like the photo picker where you give up control of the UI until you recieve a callback. There is also a C-based API for direct manipulation of the contacts DB from within your app.
http://developer.apple.com/IPhone/library/documentation/ContactData/Conceptual/AddressBookProgrammingGuideforiPhone/200-QuickStart/QuickStart.html
i want to create a application which sync my iPhone contacts to my server and vice-versa.
i read a article on google Get Google Sync on your phone . i want to this type of feature which directly update the contact without user interaction (however one time setting is desired).
any body have idea how the google sync work .
Please advice me that how can i achieve this task. any suggestion and link is greatly appreciated
I think it's important to separate the two overlapping approaches in your question.
Firstly, Google Sync is essentially a way to use Microsoft Exchange protocols and to setup a Mail / Contact / Calendar profile on an iPhone. The iPhone OS supports this feature, not an iPhone App in the App Store. Google Sync leverages this fundamental capability of the phone by exposing the data (mail, contacts, calendars) via these known protocols. If you want to expose data in this way to your users, setup a Microsoft Exchange server and ask questions on serverfault.
Secondly, there are iPhone apps. iPhone apps sold in the app store are not currently allowed to run in the background. This means you can't emulate functionality like iTunes or Mail where your music plays while you are browsing the web, or mail checking is done while you are playing a game of Mini Squadron. If you want this backgrounding capability, file a bug/enhancement with Apple.. However, you can interact with iPhone contacts (Address Book) via the API.. You can also of course "re-invent the wheel" and expose the data however you like via the internet, and consume that data from a custom iPhone App with the one caveat that users would need to actively launch your application to get to this data and it would not be integrated with the built-in iPhone Calendar, Address Book or Mail applications. Some good examples of that are some of the music community apps that have messaging systems built into them. Presumably that is all being done with web services.
EDIT: It is also worth mentioning that should you go the "iPhone App" route, you should at least consider if push notifications are right for you, and if so how you will handle it.
Have you seen the API-Docs?
http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/ContactData/Conceptual/AddressBookProgrammingGuideforiPhone/100-Introduction/Introduction.html
Next there is an application I use called Funambol - it is a sync4j Server/Client. They have an open source application to sync contacts on the iPhone. Source is somewhere in their repository, informations here: http://forge.ow2.org/scm/?group_id=96
As slf told you your application must run in foreground. This may limit you.
Good luck & best regards,
Florian
The 3.0 SDK will allow your application to read contact data on the phone.
Web services will allow you to publish that data to your server, and receive updates.
You may also want to use coredata to store a hash of all contact data so you can tell what is new / updated and just send that data to your server.