How to choose a contact from the ios8 address book

Question

I have been working on an iOS application a year with ios7, now I upgraded it to ios8 and saw that there is a new way to select contacts.

What am I doing now:

-(void)showABNewPersonViewController{ //Calling the addresbook ABPeoplePickerNavigationController *picker = [[ABPeoplePickerNavigationController alloc] init]; picker.peoplePickerDelegate = self; [self presentViewController:picker animated:YES completion:nil]; } - (BOOL)peoplePickerNavigationController:(ABPeoplePickerNavigationController *)peoplePicker shouldContinueAfterSelectingPerson:(ABRecordRef)person{ //Getting contact email and phone number then assign it to there tb's. ABMultiValueRef emails = (ABMultiValueRef) ABRecordCopyValue(person, kABPersonEmailProperty); CFStringRef emailID = ABMultiValueCopyValueAtIndex(emails, 0); _tbContactPersonEmail.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@", emailID]; CFRelease(emailID); CFRelease(emails); ABMultiValueRef phone = (ABMultiValueRef) ABRecordCopyValue(person, kABPersonPhoneProperty); CFStringRef phoneID = ABMultiValueCopyValueAtIndex(phone, 0); _tbContactPersonPhone.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@", phoneID]; CFRelease(phoneID); CFRelease(phone); [self fieldValueChanged:nil]; [self dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:nil]; return NO; } -(BOOL)peoplePickerNavigationController:(ABPeoplePickerNavigationController *)peoplePicker shouldContinueAfterSelectingPerson:(ABRecordRef)person property:(ABPropertyID)property identifier:(ABMultiValueIdentifier)identifier{ return NO; } -(void)peoplePickerNavigationControllerDidCancel:(ABPeoplePickerNavigationController *)peoplePicker{ [self dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:nil]; } 

And with this code, I can open the address book and select a contact, but now it does not return its name and its number opens a detailed view of the selected contact.

my peoplePickerNavigationController does not receive a call

Thanks for the help and quick reply ¨

Answer 1

To be able to select a contact in iOS 8, you need to use this:

 - (void)peoplePickerNavigationController:(ABPeoplePickerNavigationController *)peoplePicker didSelectPerson:(ABRecordRef)person { ....// do whatever you need here } 

Of course, first you need to match ABPeoplePickerNavigationControllerDelegate .

Example:

 -(void)openPeoplePicker { ABPeoplePickerNavigationController *personPicker = [ABPeoplePickerNavigationController new]; personPicker.peoplePickerDelegate = self; [self presentViewController:personPicker animated:YES completion:nil]; } - (void)peoplePickerNavigationController:(ABPeoplePickerNavigationController *)peoplePicker didSelectPerson:(ABRecordRef)person { NSString *firstName; NSString *middleName; NSString *lastName; NSDate *retrievedDate; UIImage *retrievedImage; // get the first name firstName = (__bridge_transfer NSString *)ABRecordCopyValue(person, kABPersonFirstNameProperty); //get the middle name middleName = (__bridge_transfer NSString*)ABRecordCopyValue(person, kABPersonMiddleNameProperty); // get the last name lastName = (__bridge_transfer NSString *)ABRecordCopyValue(person, kABPersonLastNameProperty); // get the birthday retrievedDate = (__bridge_transfer NSDate*)ABRecordCopyValue(person, kABPersonBirthdayProperty); // get personPicture if (person != nil && ABPersonHasImageData(person)) { retrievedImage = [UIImage imageWithData:(__bridge_transfer NSData*)ABPersonCopyImageDataWithFormat(person, kABPersonImageFormatThumbnail)]; } else { retrievedImage = nil; } //set the name if (firstName != NULL && middleName != NULL && lastName != NULL) { retrievedName = [[NSString alloc] initWithFormat:@"%@ %@ %@",firstName,middleName,lastName]; } if (firstName != NULL && middleName != NULL & lastName == NULL) { retrievedName = [[NSString alloc] initWithFormat:@"%@ %@",firstName, middleName]; } if (firstName != NULL && middleName == NULL && lastName != NULL) { retrievedName = [[NSString alloc] initWithFormat:@"%@ %@",firstName,lastName]; } if (firstName != NULL && middleName == NULL && lastName == NULL) { retrievedName = [[NSString alloc] initWithFormat:@"%@",firstName]; } if (firstName == NULL && middleName != NULL && lastName != NULL) { retrievedName = [[NSString alloc] initWithFormat:@"%@ %@",middleName, lastName]; } if (firstName == NULL && middleName != NULL && lastName == NULL) { retrievedName = [[NSString alloc] initWithFormat:@"%@",middleName]; } if (firstName == NULL && middleName == NULL && lastName != NULL) { retrievedName = [[NSString alloc] initWithFormat:@"%@", lastName]; } [self dismissViewControllerAnimated:NO completion:^(){}]; } 

Answer 2

Here is an example in Swift:

Call the address book collector:

 @IBAction func didTouchAddContactButton(sender: AnyObject) { let contactPicker = ABPeoplePickerNavigationController() contactPicker.peoplePickerDelegate = self // Just to pick an email let properties: [AnyObject] = [Int(kABPersonEmailProperty)] contactPicker.displayedProperties = properties // Open picker presentViewController(contactPicker, animated: true, completion: nil) } 

Receive an email from Person:

 extension ViewController: ABPeoplePickerNavigationControllerDelegate { func peoplePickerNavigationController(peoplePicker: ABPeoplePickerNavigationController!, didSelectPerson person: ABRecord!, property: ABPropertyID, identifier: ABMultiValueIdentifier) { // Property let list: ABMultiValueRef = ABRecordCopyValue(person, property).takeRetainedValue() //kABPersonEmailProperty // Value index let index = Int(identifier) as CFIndex // Retrieve value let email: String = ABMultiValueCopyValueAtIndex(list, index).takeRetainedValue() as! String // Result print(email) peoplePicker.dismissViewControllerAnimated(true, completion: nil) } } 

Answer 3

I am updating my code. This is my updated code. His workers are 100% perfect.

  - (void)peoplePickerNavigationController:(ABPeoplePickerNavigationController *)peoplePicker didSelectPerson:(ABRecordRef)person { ABMultiValueRef phone = (ABMultiValueRef) ABRecordCopyValue(person, kABPersonPhoneProperty); CFStringRef phoneID = ABMultiValueCopyValueAtIndex(phone, 0); phoneNumberTextField.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@", phoneID]; CFRelease(phoneID); CFRelease(phone); [self dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:nil]; } -(BOOL)peoplePickerNavigationController:(ABPeoplePickerNavigationController *)peoplePicker shouldContinueAfterSelectingPerson:(ABRecordRef)person property:(ABPropertyID)property identifier:(ABMultiValueIdentifier)identifier{ return NO; } -(void)peoplePickerNavigationControllerDidCancel:(ABPeoplePickerNavigationController *)peoplePicker{ [self dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:nil]; } - (void)addContactFromPhoneContacts:(id)sender { ABPeoplePickerNavigationController *picker = [[ABPeoplePickerNavigationController alloc] init]; picker.peoplePickerDelegate = self; [self presentViewController:picker animated:YES completion:nil]; }