Goto address book/contact number directly from app - iphone

Question

I want to make an app and want to access the contact numbers directly when i touch/press a particular text field or button and then return to my app with a selected contact number. How can i do this.

Answer 1

You need to add ABPeoplePickerNavigationControllerDelegate delegate in .h file
and in .m file write down below three methods:
#pragma mark People Picker Delegate Methods
- (void)peoplePickerNavigationControllerDidCancel:
(ABPeoplePickerNavigationController *)peoplePicker {
[peoplePicker dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];
[peoplePicker autorelease];
}
- (BOOL)peoplePickerNavigationController:
(ABPeoplePickerNavigationController *)peoplePicker
shouldContinueAfterSelectingPerson:(ABRecordRef)person {
return YES;
}
- (BOOL)peoplePickerNavigationController:
(ABPeoplePickerNavigationController *)peoplePicker
shouldContinueAfterSelectingPerson:(ABRecordRef)person
property:(ABPropertyID)property
identifier:(ABMultiValueIdentifier)valueID{
ABPropertyType type = ABPersonGetTypeOfProperty(property);
if (type==kABMultiDictionaryPropertyType) {
ABMutableMultiValueRef multi = ABRecordCopyValue(person, property);
CFIndex index = ABMultiValueGetIndexForIdentifier(multi, valueID);
CFDictionaryRef dic = ABMultiValueCopyValueAtIndex(multi, index);
CFStringRef street = CFDictionaryGetValue(dic, kABPersonAddressStreetKey);
NSString* StreetName =(NSString*)street;
streetNameText.text=StreetName;
NSLog(#"StreetName:%#",StreetName);
NSRange range = NSMakeRange (0, 5);
NSLog (#"Beer shortname: %#", [StreetName substringWithRange:range]);
int val = [StreetName intValue];
NSLog(#"StreetName:%d",val);
NSString *newChange = [[NSString alloc] initWithFormat:#"%d", val];
streetNOText.text = newChange;
[newChange release];
CFRelease(dic);
CFRelease(multi);
}
[self dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];
return NO;
}

Answer 2

I am not able to give you the whole code. Following bare the steps :
1. On click to button go to new view which must have tableview
2. In that view get the address book
To get the addressbook
Add these frameworks:
AddressBook,
AddressBookUI
import them in your view
And for getting the contacts from addressbook refer the following tutorial
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/ContactData/Conceptual/AddressBookProgrammingGuideforiPhone/Chapters/QuickStart.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40007744-CH2-SW1
I know this is not the full solution for your question but this link will help you to get the remaining task...Good luck

Answer 3

May this method will help you, just call this method when you want to fetch records from addressbook. n ofcourse add the frameworks AddressBook, AddressBookUI
first create database (as i did if you want you can store it into NSMutable Array instead of database, as per your requirement.)
-(void)fetchRecordsFromAddressBook
{
ABAddressBookRef addressBook = ABAddressBookCreate();
CFArrayRef allPeople = ABAddressBookCopyArrayOfAllPeople(addressBook);
CFIndex nPeople = ABAddressBookGetPersonCount(addressBook);
//NSArray *addresses = (NSArray *) ABAddressBookCopyArrayOfAllPeople(addressBook);
// [arrayContacts removeAllObjects];
[self emptyDataContext];
for (int i = 0; i < nPeople; i++)
{
ABRecordRef ref = CFArrayGetValueAtIndex(allPeople, i);
////////////////// get first name ///////////////////
CFStringRef firstName = ABRecordCopyValue(ref, kABPersonFirstNameProperty);
CFStringRef lastName = ABRecordCopyValue(ref, kABPersonLastNameProperty);
CFStringRef nickName = ABRecordCopyValue(ref, kABPersonNicknameProperty);
CFStringRef middleName = ABRecordCopyValue(ref, kABPersonMiddleNameProperty);
////////////////// get image ///////////////////
// ABMultiValueRef ContactImage = (ABMultiValueRef) ABRecordCopyValue(ref,kABPersonImageFormatThumbnail);
NSData *data=nil;
// NSLog(#"Image Testing is : %#",ref);
if(ABPersonHasImageData(ref))
{
data = [(NSData *) ABPersonCopyImageData(ref) autorelease];
if(data)
{
// NSLog(#"Im Testing is : %#",data);
//image = [[UIImage alloc] initWithData:data];
}
}
// NSLog(#"Image is : %#",ContactImage);
// NSLog(#" Name is : %#",firstName);
////////////////// get email ///////////////////
ABMultiValueRef emails = (ABMultiValueRef) ABRecordCopyValue(ref, kABPersonEmailProperty);
NSString *emailID=#"";
if(ABMultiValueGetCount(emails)>=1)
{
emailID = (NSString *)ABMultiValueCopyValueAtIndex(emails,0);
}
////////////////// get phone number ///////////////////
ABMultiValueRef phones = (ABMultiValueRef) ABRecordCopyValue(ref, kABPersonPhoneProperty);
NSString *phone=#"";
NSString *homeNumber = #"";
NSString *worknumber = #"";
if(ABMultiValueGetCount(phones)>=1)
{
//int ph = [ABMultiValueCopyValueAtIndex(phones, 0) intValue];
phone = (NSString *)ABMultiValueCopyValueAtIndex(phones,0);
}
// NSLog(#"%#",(NSString*)phone);
if(ABMultiValueGetCount(phones)>=2)
{
homeNumber = (NSString *)ABMultiValueCopyValueAtIndex(phones,1);
}
if(ABMultiValueGetCount(phones)>=3)
{
worknumber = (NSString *)ABMultiValueCopyValueAtIndex(phones,2);
}
NSMutableArray *arrayContacts = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init ];
///////////////////////////// insert into array ////////////////////////////
arrayContacts = [CoreDataAPIMethods getObjectsFromContext:#"AllContactData" :#"Index" :NO :self.managedObjectContext];
//////////////////////////// insert Index ///////////////////////////////
int NewEntryID;
if ([arrayContacts count] > 0)
{
AllContactData * Contacdata = [arrayContacts objectAtIndex:0];
NewEntryID = [Contacdata.Index intValue] +1;
}
else
{
NewEntryID = 1;
}
NSString *capitalisedSentence =
[(NSString *)firstName stringByReplacingCharactersInRange:NSMakeRange(0,1)
withString:[[(NSString *)firstName substringToIndex:1] capitalizedString]];
AllContactData *Contactitem=(AllContactData *)[NSEntityDescription insertNewObjectForEntityForName:#"AllContactData" inManagedObjectContext:self.managedObjectContext];
// NSLog(#"%#",capitalisedSentence);
Contactitem.Name = capitalisedSentence;
Contactitem.LastName = (NSString*)lastName;
Contactitem.NickName = (NSString*)nickName;
Contactitem.MiddleName = (NSString*)middleName;
Contactitem.Email=(NSString*)emailID;
phone = [phone stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:#"(" withString:#""];
phone = [phone stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:#")" withString:#""];
phone = [phone stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:#"+" withString:#""];
phone = [phone stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:#" " withString:#""];
phone = [phone stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:#"-" withString:#""];
NSLog(#"The Replaced String is : %#", phone);
Contactitem.PhoneNumber=(NSString*)phone;
Contactitem.HomeNumber=(NSString*)homeNumber;
Contactitem.WorkNumber=(NSString*)worknumber;
Contactitem.Index = [NSNumber numberWithInt:NewEntryID];
Contactitem.Image = data;
// NSLog(#"Image in databse is : %#",(NSData *)ContactImage);
if(firstName!=nil)
{
CFRelease(firstName);
}
CFRelease(ref);
}
CFRelease(allPeople);
///////////////////////////// save entries ////////////////////////////
NSError *error;
if (![managedObjectContext save:&error]) {
// Handle the error...
}
}