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Reputation: 701

Address Book Retrieving Mobile, Work, and iPhone phone numbers

I started developing a settings page for my app.

On this page, the user can tap a "+" button which will open the ABPeoplePickerNavigationController. When the contact is tapped, the text fields on the settings page will be filled appropriately with the correct data from the chosen user.

I understand that if I want to retrieve someone's work email, it's:

NSString *workEmail = (__bridge NSString *)ABMultiValueCopyValueAtIndex(emails, 1);

and for home it would be:

NSString *homeEmail = (__bridge NSString *)ABMultiValueCopyValueAtIndex(emails, 0);

But as far as retrieving different types of phone numbers, I am stuck.

I would appreciate it much if someone could tell me how to get the different types of phone numbers hopefully similar to the way I get the two emails.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2231

Answers (1)

Jonathan Grynspan
Jonathan Grynspan

Reputation: 43472

Well, first off, you understand wrong--there's no guarantee that the user's home email address is #0. What if you only have that user's work email? Then that will be in slot 0.

What you want is ABMultiValueCopyLabelAtIndex(), which when used with named constants will tell you which is which:

ABPersonRef person = ...;
ABMultiValueRef phoneNumbers = ABRecordCopyValue(person, kABPersonPhoneProperty);
if (phoneNumbers) {
    CFIndex numberOfPhoneNumbers = ABMultiValueGetCount(phoneNumbers);
    for (CFIndex i = 0; i < numberOfPhoneNumbers; i++) {
        CFStringRef label = ABMultiValueCopyLabelAtIndex(phoneNumbers, i);
        if (label) {
            if (CFEqual(label, kABWorkLabel)) {
                /* it's the user's work phone */
            } else if (CFEqual(label, kABHomeLabel)) {
                /* it's the user's home phone */
            } else if (...) {
                /* other specific cases of your choosing... */
            } else {
                /* it's some other label, such as a custom label */
            }
            CFRelease(label);
        }
    }
    CFRelease(phoneNumbers);
}

Upvotes: 7

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