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iphoneobjective-caddressbook
Vladimir Stazhilov
Vladimir Stazhilov

Reputation: 1954

How do you select a certain number from a phone's address book?

How do you select a certain number from a phone's address book?

I get a contact from the Address book, but only mobile number is retrieved. What should I do to enable user to select mobile/home/other number?

Here is my code:

-(IBAction)pickContact
{
    // creating the picker
    ABPeoplePickerNavigationController *picker = [[ABPeoplePickerNavigationController alloc] init];
    // place the delegate of the picker to the controll
    picker.peoplePickerDelegate = self;

    // showing the picker
    [self presentModalViewController:picker animated:YES];
    // releasing
    [picker release];

}
-(void)peoplePickerNavigationControllerDidCancel:(ABPeoplePickerNavigationController *)peoplePicker {
    // assigning control back to the main controller
    [self dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];
}

-(BOOL)peoplePickerNavigationController: (ABPeoplePickerNavigationController *)peoplePicker shouldContinueAfterSelectingPerson:(ABRecordRef)person {

    Contact *cont=[[Contact alloc] init];

    // setting the first name
    cont.fName = (NSString *)ABRecordCopyValue(person, kABPersonFirstNameProperty);

    // setting the last name
    cont.lastName = (NSString *)ABRecordCopyValue(person, kABPersonLastNameProperty);   

    // setting the number
    /*
     this function will set the first number it finds

     if you do not set a number for a contact it will probably
     crash
     */



    //ABMultiValueRef multi = ABRecordCopyValue(person, kABPersonPhoneProperty);

    //  cont.number = (NSString*)ABMultiValueCopyValueAtIndex(multi, 0);
    ABMultiValueRef phones =(NSString*)ABRecordCopyValue(
                                                         person, kABPersonPhoneProperty);

    CFIndex numPhoneNums = ABMultiValueGetCount(phones);
    if(numPhoneNums == 0) {
        NSLog(@"No number available");
        cont.number = @"No number available";
    } else {
        cont.number = (NSString*) ABMultiValueCopyValueAtIndex(phones, 0);
    }

...The rest works alright.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 586

Answers (2)

ChangUZ
ChangUZ

Reputation: 5440

else {
        cont.number = (NSString*) ABMultiValueCopyValueAtIndex(phones, **0**);
    }

"phones" has all phone numbers (mobile, home, fax, etc)

But you only use index 0.

You use only first phone number. (It would be not mobile.)

Use for loop (numPhoneNums) to access all numbers.

Upvotes: 0

alloc_iNit
alloc_iNit

Reputation: 5183

To get all type of phone numbers...(person is an instance of ABRecordRef)

    NSMutableArray *arPhList = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];   
    ABMultiValueRef phones = ABRecordCopyValue(person, kABPersonPhoneProperty);
    for(CFIndex j = 0; j < ABMultiValueGetCount(phones); j++)
    {       
        CFStringRef phoneNumberRef = ABMultiValueCopyValueAtIndex(phones, j);   
        NSString *phoneLabel =(NSString*) ABAddressBookCopyLocalizedLabel(ABMultiValueCopyLabelAtIndex(phones, j));
        NSString *phoneNumber = (NSString *)phoneNumberRef;            
        NSDictionary *dicTemp = [[NSDictionary alloc]initWithObjectsAndKeys:phoneNumber,@"value", phoneLabel,@"label", nil];  
        [arPhList addObject:dicTemp];
}

Upvotes: 2

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