This is the code I'm using to call the people picker, but the prompt label text doesn't change:
ABPeoplePickerNavigationController *picker = [[ABPeoplePickerNavigationController alloc] init];
picker.peoplePickerDelegate = self;
picker.displayedProperties = [NSArray arrayWithObjects: [NSNumber numberWithInt:kABPersonEmailProperty], nil];
picker.navigationItem.prompt = #"Choose a contact to...";
[self presentModalViewController:picker animated:YES];
There is a key piece of information missing in the other answers, and not quite obvious. You need to set the prompt after the line:
[self presentModalViewController:picker animated:YES];
So, if you do it like this, it works:
[self presentModalViewController:picker animated:YES];
picker.navigationBar.topItem.prompt = #"Choose a contact to...";
You can change the title with:
picker.navigationBar.topItem.title = #"iPhone Contacts";
And you can change the prompt with:
picker.navigationBar.topItem.prompt = #"iPhone Contacts";
I've just stumbled upon a way to do this. However, I'm not sure it's the best way. Just replace in the code above the line
picker.navigationItem.prompt = #"Choose a contact to...";
With
picker.navigationBar.topItem.prompt = #"Choose a contact to...";
If you're sub-classing the ABPeoplePickerNavigationController you need to set this once the view controller is pushed. This is in effect what achieving the same thing that Johan suggested, but from within the class.
In the ABPeoplePickerNavigationController implement the following delegate method like so:
-(void)navigationController:(UINavigationController *)navigationController
willShowViewController:(UIViewController *)viewController
animated:(BOOL)animated
{
[[[self navigationBar] topItem] setPrompt:#"test"];
}
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I have an iOS TabBar Application with tabbarcontroller and navigationcontroller.
In my detail view wich is pushed from my first tab tableviewcontroller i have sharing navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem with email sharing.
I have the following code for this:
- (void)share
{
UIActionSheet *popupQuery = [[UIActionSheet alloc] initWithTitle:#"Send" delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:#"Cancel" destructiveButtonTitle:nil otherButtonTitles:#"Email",nil];
popupQuery.actionSheetStyle = UIActionSheetStyleBlackTranslucent;
[popupQuery showInView:self.view];
[popupQuery release];
}
-(void)actionSheet:(UIActionSheet *)actionSheet clickedButtonAtIndex:(NSInteger)buttonIndex {
if (buttonIndex == 0) {
if ([MFMailComposeViewController canSendMail]){
MFMailComposeViewController *picker = [[MFMailComposeViewController alloc] init];
[picker setMailComposeDelegate:self];
[picker setSubject:#"New theme"];
NSString *emailBody = #"Hi there";
[picker setMessageBody:emailBody isHTML:NO];
[self resignFirstResponder];
picker.modalTransitionStyle = UIModalTransitionStyleFlipHorizontal;
picker.modalPresentationStyle = UIModalPresentationCurrentContext;
[self presentModalViewController:picker animated:NO];
[picker release];
}
else{
}
}
}
The app shows me the composing view but when i'm trying to do something with this view (e.g. to pick up the address or to spell something) - app crashes with SIGTRAP.
The app crashes only in iOS5, iOS5.1. In iOS4.2.1 everything works perfect.
What's the problem? Any ideas?
Per the docs, I'd suggest calling [MFMailComposeViewController canSendMail] class method before creating MFMailComposeViewController. I also generally don't have that [self resignFirstResponder] line. I gather you're crashing before your mailComposeController:didFinishWithResult:error method is invoked?
Thank you guys for your help and your time.
It was absolutely insane bug. Project has a cyrillic name. I just renamed it to latin name and now everything works fine. My fault :( Thanks Evgeniy Shurakov for the help.
I was trying to send SMS from within my app. I wrote this piece of code but it seems not to work.
No crash, no error log, simply nothing happen (of course I tried to log canSendText and the result is 1).
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
messageComposer = [[MFMessageComposeViewController alloc] init];
if ([MFMessageComposeViewController canSendText]) {
[messageComposer setBody:#"Messaggio generato da SMSTest"];
[messageComposer setRecipients:[NSArray arrayWithObject:#"3333333333"]];
[messageComposer setDelegate:self];
[self presentModalViewController:messageComposer animated:YES];
}
}
Can anyone explain me what I'm doing wrong?
The problem is that presentModalViewController does not work in viewDidLoad yet as the view is loaded but might not even be on screen yet. If you put your code in viewWillAppear:animated, this should work.
Edit: As per Saphrosit's comment: viewDidAppear: is an even better place to do this.
I use this successfully:
MFMessageComposeViewController *controller = [[MFMessageComposeViewController alloc] init];
controller.messageComposeDelegate = self;
controller.modalPresentationStyle = UIModalPresentationFullScreen;
[self presentModalViewController:controller animated:YES];
Note that it's messageComposeDelegate, not 'delegate' as you do.
Tim
When i try the code on simulator i get an UIAlert saying text messaging is not available, because simulator can´t send messages. Have you checked that your header file is a delegate of MFMessageComposeViewControllerDelegate ?
YourClassName : UIViewController <MFMessageComposeViewControllerDelegate>
//try this ... it will run ..
MFMessageComposeViewController *controller = [[[MFMessageComposeViewController alloc] init] autorelease];
if([MFMessageComposeViewController canSendText])
{
controller.body = #"Hello from Kartik";
controller.recipients = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:#"12356478", nil];
controller.messageComposeDelegate = self;
[self presentModalViewController:controller animated:YES];
}
I have a method like this:
void sendSMS{
if ([MFMessageComposeViewController canSendText]) {
MFMessageComposeViewController *picker = [[MFMessageComposeViewController alloc] init];
picker.recipients = [NSArray arrayWithObject:#"0933660805"];
[picker setBody:#"Message body"];
picker.messageComposeDelegate = self;
[self.navigationController presentModalViewController:picker animated:YES];
//[picker release];
return;
}
}
Message composer open but recipients and message body are empty (image below). Anybody know how can i fix it :(
Go for this ones and then check may be it will resolve your issue
void sendSMS
{
if ([MFMessageComposeViewController canSendText]) {
MFMessageComposeViewController *picker = [[MFMessageComposeViewController alloc] init];
picker.messageComposeDelegate = self;
NSString *bodyString = nil;
NSMutableArray *toRecipients = [[NSMutableArray alloc]init];
[toRecipients addObject:#"0933660805"];
[picker setRecipients:(NSArray *)toRecipients];
[toRecipients release];
bodyString = [NSString stringWithFormat: #"Message body"];
[picker setBody:bodyString];
[self presentModalViewController:picker animated:YES];
[picker release];
}
Also take a look at this tutorial http://blog.mugunthkumar.com/coding/iphone-tutorial-how-to-send-in-app-sms/
Good Luck!
OK I answered my own question. Now I want no one else to have to go thru this. I was calling this method from just an NSObject. It was a delegate to MFMessageComposeViewControllerDelegate but that made no difference. I had to move this method to my MainViewController, then it worked.
iOS 10.0 is here and this is still a problem for me. So, I have fashioned a workaround.
According to previous comments that initializing the MFMessageComposeViewController in the viewDidLoad() won't solve the problem (which I can attest to), unless the view controller gets presented, it won't be cached. So, the hack here is to make a window, set its root view controller, present a dummy MFMessageComposeViewController instance and immediately dismiss it, somewhere before your actual need (like in viewDidLoad())
Here is a sample code I'm using (Swift 3.0 - Let me know if you were interested in Obj-C counterpart):
let window = UIWindow()
let vc = UIViewController()
window.rootViewController = vc
let messageCompose = MFMessageComposeViewController()
vc.present(messageCompose, animated: false) { [weak messageCompose] in
messageCompose?.dismiss(animated: false, completion: nil)
}
The thing here is that if you present it in the currently active window's view controller chain, it will mess up your UI by showing and hiding the keyboard abruptly (no matter how you try to hide the controller's view and what not), due to the message body selection on present. But adding it to a whole new window which is not in view cycle, it will be correctly initialized and there will be no trace of such transaction on view. Plus, you won't boggle the memory too much this way (because the scope of the controller should be minimal now) and you can initialize your actual MFMessageComposeViewController any time you want and get it much faster now. If your application heavily relies on MFMessageComposeViewController (which I doubt) you can move this to your AppDelegate to be ready anywhere around your app's life cycle.
Cheers,
M.
Try this
- (void)sendSMS
{
if ([MFMessageComposeViewController canSendText]) {
MFMessageComposeViewController *picker = [[MFMessageComposeViewController alloc] init];
picker.messageComposeDelegate = self;
NSString *bodyString = nil;
NSArray *toRecipients = [NSArray arrayWithObject:#"NUMBER HERE"];
[picker setRecipients:toRecipients];
[self presentModalViewController:picker animated:YES];
[picker release];
}
In my case (on iPhone 3g s) the problem was when I called [self.navigationController pushViewController... ], when i tried call [self presentModalViewController ...] it worked, I dont know why, but it is. Try it.
set the MFMessageComposeViewController *picker = [[MFMessageComposeViewController alloc] init];
before if ([MFMessageComposeViewController canSendText]) {...}
Try this.
Try this.
- (void)forwardPromo
{
MFMessageComposeViewController *composeViewController = [[MFMessageComposeViewController alloc] init];
composeViewController.body = #"Message body";
composeViewController.recipients = [NSArray arrayWithObject:#"0933660805"];
composeViewController.messageComposeDelegate = self;
[self presentViewController:composeViewController animated:YES completion:nil];
}
You should have a "nil" at the end of the array:
composeViewController.recipients = [NSArray arrayWithObject:#"0933660805", nil];
I am trying to integrate new contact control in my app. Here is my code:
- (BOOL) personViewController:(ABPersonViewController*)personView shouldPerformDefaultActionForPerson:(ABRecordRef)person property:(ABPropertyID)property identifier:(ABMultiValueIdentifier)identifierForValue
{
return YES;
}
-(IBAction)addcontact:(id)sender{
ABNewPersonViewController *picker = [[ABNewPersonViewController alloc] init];
UINavigationController *navigation = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:picker];
[self presentModalViewController:navigation animated:YES];
[picker release];
[navigation release];
}
It pops up new contact view but when I click Cancel or Done button nothing happens.
Can anyone help me?
Thanks in advance!
//Make sure your VC is an <ABNewPersonViewControllerDelegate>
-(void) newPersonViewController:(ABNewPersonViewController *)newPersonView
didCompleteWithNewPerson:(ABRecordRef)person {
if (person != nil) //nil = Cancel button clicked
{
//do something
}
//iOS6
[self dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:nil];
}
You need to add methods that should be called when the cancel or done button is tapped and that method should call [self.navigationController dismissModalViewController
My app needs to associate instances of a custom class with contact records in the iPhone's AddressBook. Everything's all well and good when I present the ABPeoplePickerNavigationController and allow the user to pick an existing contact. Problem is there's no obvious way to allow a user to easily ADD a contact record if the one they're looking for doesn't already exist in their AddressBook.
How are people getting from ABPeoplePickerNavigationController to ABNewPersonViewController in a way that's easy & intuitive for the user?
You can create a UIBarButton and add it to the UINavigationBar of the ABPeoplePickerNavigationController like so.
peoplePicker.topViewController.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithBarButtonSystemItem:UIBarButtonSystemItemAdd target:self action:#selector(addPerson:)];
-(IBAction)addPerson:(id)sender{
ABNewPersonViewController *view = [[ABNewPersonViewController alloc] init];
view.newPersonViewDelegate = self;
UINavigationController *nc = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:view];
[self.picker presentModalViewController:nc animated:YES];
}
The issue that i came up against was that the ABPeoplePickerNavigationController has a cancel button placed in the rightBarButtonItem slot and I had to update the navigation bar on the
- (void)navigationController:(UINavigationController *)navigationController willShowViewController:(UIViewController *)viewController animated:(BOOL)animated{
I have documented the entire process on my blog with a worked example that should allow you to create a contacts style application similar to that on the iPhone. Hope this helps.
I found Scott Sherwood's approach along with the demo he posted on his site to be very helpful. As one of the commenters on his blog mentioned though, there is a problem with the Cancel button in Edit mode.
I just proposed a fix to Scott's demo, along with a different approach for the Person View Controller at:
http://finalize.com/2013/05/12/using-and-customizing-the-address-book-ui/
My suggestion for the Person View Controller was to put it up manually in the protocol method peoplePickerNavigationController:shouldContinueAfterSelectingPerson: for the ABPeoplePickerNavigationControllerDelegate.
// Displays the information of a selected person
- (BOOL)peoplePickerNavigationController:(ABPeoplePickerNavigationController *)peoplePicker shouldContinueAfterSelectingPerson:(ABRecordRef)person
{
ABPersonViewController *view = [[ABPersonViewController alloc] init];
view.personViewDelegate = self;
view.displayedPerson = person; // Assume person is already defined.
view.allowsEditing = YES;
view.allowsActions = YES;
[peoplePicker pushViewController:view animated:YES];
return NO;
}
The only issue here is that the People Picker table view of names is not refreshed automatically after an edit. This can be fixed with the use of an Address Book callback. I show how this can be done in the GitHub project I posted at:
https://github.com/scottcarter/AddressBookPeoplePicker.git
it appears that it is not possible to add a new contact directly from the ABPeoplePickerNavigationController. Therefore, when the user clicks an add button, I am presenting an UIActionSheet with two buttons:
- (void) addContact{
contactMenu = [[UIActionSheet alloc]
initWithTitle: nil
delegate:self
cancelButtonTitle:#"Cancel"
destructiveButtonTitle: nil
otherButtonTitles:#"Select a contact", #"Add a new contact", NULL];
[contactMenu showInView:self.view];
}
Here is the associated delegate method:
- (void)actionSheet:(UIActionSheet *)actionSheet clickedButtonAtIndex:(NSInteger)buttonIndex
{
if(buttonIndex == 0){
// select an existing contact
ABPeoplePickerNavigationController *peoplePicker = [[ABPeoplePickerNavigationController alloc] init];
peoplePicker.peoplePickerDelegate = self;
[self presentModalViewController:peoplePicker animated:YES];
}
if(buttonIndex == 1){
// add a new contact
ABNewPersonViewController *newPersonViewController = [[ABNewPersonViewController alloc] init];
newPersonViewController.newPersonViewDelegate = self;
UINavigationController *personNavController = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:newPersonViewController];
[self presentModalViewController:personNavController animated:YES];
[personNavController release];
[newPersonViewController release];
}
if(buttonIndex == 2){
// cancel the operation
[actionSheet dismissWithClickedButtonIndex:2 animated:YES];
}
}