I am trying to programmatically discover the first and last names of the iPhone user. Is this possible at all? Calling this ...
getpwuid( getuid() )->pw_gecos == "Mobile User"
..alas. Iterating over the address book finds all address book records, but doesn't distinguish between the device owner and anyone else (that I can tell).
Given that the Mac desktop address book decorates the owners icon with a 'me' overlay in the bottom-left, I'm hoping that sort of information is available in the iPhone version.
Martin.
As noted in the other thread, there is NSFullUserName() - this call does come up in the iPhone documentation so it should work on the device. Simply parse out the first and last name from that.
See similar question - there is no public API for that.
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I'm trying to use ABPersonGetCompositeNameFormat() to read the sort order settings for the user's address book. It always returns kABPersonCompositeNameFormatFirstNameFirst regardless of how I configure the "Display Order" preference in the Settings application. The Address Book application changes appropriately when the display order is set to "Last First" but the API call always returns the same value that represents the "First Last" display order. Has anybody else had this problem? I'm running this on an iPhone4 with iOS 4.3.3.
I've just found a solution - ABAddressBookRef has to be obtained (by ABAddressBookCreate) at least once before calling to ABPersonGetCompositeNameFormat(), but there are no mentions about it in the documentation.
ABRecordRef source = ABAddressBookCopyDefaultSource(addressBook);
people = (NSArray*)ABAddressBookCopyArrayOfAllPeopleInSourceWithSortOrdering(addressBook, source, kABPersonSortByLastName);
It helps you.
I am wanting to create a contact programmatically into the "local" addressbook (so that it doesn't try to synch, which causes some compatibility issues with Exchange).
If a local addressbook already exists, I can find it using ABAddressBookCopyArrayOfAllSources to get all the sources in the Address Book, then look for the ABRecordRef with a sourceTypeRef of "kABSourceTypeLocal"- if I then pass that recordRef to ABPersonCreateInSource, I can add a record to the local directory.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I should best go about creating a record in the "local addressBook", if there ISN'T a local addressbook already?
(also, how could I do this pre-iOS4, as the above calls weren't available then?)
Thanks
Peter
You should take a look at this post:
Obtaining Specific ABSource from ABAddressBook in iOS 4+
that demonstrates how to identify and target specific sources (ABSource) within the ABAddressBook. While this code mentions the function, ABGroupCreateInSource(), there is a similar function, ABPersonCreateInSource() for working with persons.
I found a simple workaround.
Since you can't see/add local contacts when you don't have any pre-existing local contact, the following workaround will be safe to use:
Let's pretend you're using Gmail (Exchange)
Go to your Mail settings for Gmail and disable the Contact sync
When prompted whether you want to keep or remove the Gmail
contacts from your phone, choose to REMOVE them (don't worry, they
won't be removed from Gmail)
Go back to your contacts. You can now create one LOCAL contact
Finally, go back to Settings/Mail/Gmail and re-enable the
Contacts sync
Voila, your Gmail contacts are back into your phone and you now
have 1 local contact that enables you to access the Local contacts
group in addition to the Gmail contacts group.
Hope that helps (I just had the same problem and found this workaround that works great for me).
Ben.
I know there are numerous questions about how to construct a sharedApplication link to the maps app specifying the start and end address with coordinates. I've got that working no problem.
Has anyone found a way to link with a source address generically specified as "current location".
I ask because the scenario I'm working on having Core Location or a UIMapView would only be necessary in order to determine the user location prior to handing off to the map app where the user locating would seem to just happen again.
I've tried throwing UTF8'd "Current Location" and "[Current Location]" into the saddr parameter which amusingly starts from Current Montana. I've also tried simply excluding the saddr param.
I know this is often tread territory but this particular situation wasn't covered by anything I found searching here or on mapki. Before I add the core location code I just wanted to make sure there wasn't a more limited way to tackle this.
Thanks
This post is quite old, but recently I had to face a similar issue and I developed a solution.
Using "Current Location" (properly escaped) as source address works perfectly.
The downside is that "Current Location" is valid for English language only. If your iPhone is set to use another language, you need to know the exact translation that Apple chose for that particular language.
I wrote a class that can provide the exact translation for "Current Location" in any supported language. You can read my blog post about this.
Hope this helps.
Hi i am developing an app for my QA department. I need to programically get how many phone numbers are there in the entire address book. No user input. Just click a button and then get how many phonenumbers are there in the ENTIRE addressbook.
I think what you are looking for is ABGroupCopyArrayOfAllMembers. See the AddressBook Programming Guide and the QuickContacts example for more info on using the AB framework.
from what I can tell from a quick look at ABMultiValue in AddressBook.sqlitedb, you might get it like this:
1 - sqlite to /var/mobile/Library/AddressBook/AddressBook.sqlitedb
2 - SELECT value FROM ABMultiValue => into some array
3 - count everything in there that matches /^[0-9 +]+$/
look around for some more help doing these steps
Edit: there's probably also some way to do it with this method:
How do you get a persons phone number from the address book?
I am using the Address Book frameworks in an iPhone app, and I would like to get the items Company Name. I can't find this info in the AddressBookUI_Framework.pdf, can someone shed some light on this.
Regards
AddressBook/AddressBook.h
AddressBookUI/AddressBookUI.h
I think you're looking for the kABPersonOrganizationProperty key.
As Ole mentioned you need to use kABPersonOrganizationProperty key. You can have a look at ABPerson reference and ABPerson.h header for other keys and more details.