Accessing Address Book in iPhone SDK?

[cmaier]

Remember that "release" isn't like "delete" in C++ or free in C. It merely reduces the reference count.

[muscheteer]

Originally Posted by gifford

I have been trundling through the adressbook iphone framework all day looking for ways to receive "missed call" events, are an array of missed calls, or any info to do with missed calls.

Has anyone spotted any info on this anywhere?

Has anyone try to handle a call event or someting like this ?

Thanks

[kiezarsoze]

I've gotten this far, but when I try to use the property called kABPersonPhoneProperty in ABPerson.h I get a return value of NSCFType.

At loggerheads. Can anyone show me how to get the phone numbers, specifically the cell phone number (kABPersonPhoneMobileLabel)?

(Also trying to get the phone number of the device itself)

Originally Posted by drivefast

i think youre talking about how to get the values in the database fields...? something like this?

PHP Code:

NSString *contactFirstLast = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@,%@", 
  ABRecordCopyValue(ref, kABPersonFirstNameProperty), 
  ABRecordCopyValue(ref, kABPersonLastNameProperty)
]; 


the kABPersonBlahBlahProperty constants (or enums, i forgot what they are) are decribed in the ABPerson documentation pages. it's a little more difficult to get a hold of the multivalues, like addresses and phone numbers, ive got something working if you need it, but i feel it's not as nice as it could be.

[kiezarsoze]

anyone got experience with ABMultiValueRef and ABMultiValueIdentifier. How do we initialize these variables? How can we use them to access multi value strings such as phone numbers and other contact info in the iphone addressbook sdk?

[yarshure]

use this code get person phone number
ABAddressBookRef book = ABAddressBookCreate(); // b
CFArrayRef people = ABAddressBookCopyArrayOfAllPeople(book);

NSLog(@"%@",ABMultiValueCopyValueAtIndex(ABRecordCopyValue(CFArrayGetValueAtIndex(people,indexPath.r ow),kABPersonPhoneProperty) ,0));

Originally Posted by kiezarsoze

anyone got experience with ABMultiValueRef and ABMultiValueIdentifier. How do we initialize these variables? How can we use them to access multi value strings such as phone numbers and other contact info in the iphone addressbook sdk?

[StrAbZ]

Thank you for all the answers in this thread, it was very helpful !

I've tried to use the SimpleDrillDown example from the apple dev center, and replace the list of name define in the code by the name from the address book, but as you can imagine i have a probleme.

This is the code i use to retrieve data from the addressBook.

ABAddressBookRef addressBook = ABAddressBookCreate();

CFArrayRef allPeople = ABAddressBookCopyArrayOfAllPeople(addressBook);
CFIndex nPeople = ABAddressBookGetPersonCount(addressBook);

NSMutableArray *masterList = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
for (int i = 0; i < nPeople; i++) {
	ABRecordRef ref = CFArrayGetValueAtIndex(allPeople, i);
	CFStringRef firstName = ABRecordCopyValue(ref, kABPersonFirstNameProperty);
	CFStringRef lastName = ABRecordCopyValue(ref, kABPersonLastNameProperty);
	NSString *contactFirstLast = [NSString stringWithFormat: @"%@", (NSString *)lastName];
	CFRelease(firstName);
	CFRelease(lastName);
	[masterList addObject:contactFirstLast];
	[contactFirstLast release];
}
	
self.list = masterList;
[masterList release];

the problem is : if i wrote the ligne :

NSString *contactFirstLast = (NSString *)lastName;

I can get all lastName, but when i try to use :

NSString *contactFirstLast = [NSString stringWithFormat: @"%@", (NSString *)lastName];

it doesn't work, did you have any idea of the probleme?

It look likes

[NSString stringWithFormat: @"LN: %@", (NSString *)lastName]

and

(NSString *)lastName

are not the same kind of NSString... i really can't understand...

Thanks

[MediadorAv]

i'm new in the iPhone, somebody know how add a record in the addressBook. thanks

[gnasher729]

Originally Posted by jhershauer

[Edit]: Hmm...I see other references to NDA, and although this thing is publicly available now, I know I agreed to something (didn't actually read it) when I downloaded the SDK, so I've gone back and attempted to kind of obfuscate the code so as not to give any SDK "secrets" away. :-)

The iPhone SDK _is_ under NDA and it is _not_ publicly available. And yes, you did agree not to publish any information about the iPhone SDK at all.

[MediadorAv]

oooh ok, no problem, I'll search other site,or anywhere, with a person like you the world don't work, so, anyway I will found it, and I'll publish all, that it is not problem for me.jajaja secrets (like secrets expedients "X").

[MediadorAv]

this is for add record to addressBook,

-(void)editarid)sender{

ABAddressBookRef libroDirec = ABAddressBookCreate();
ABRecordRef persona = ABPersonCreate();

ABRecordSetValue(persona, kABPersonFirstNameProperty, @"kate" , nil);
ABRecordSetValue(persona, kABPersonLastNameProperty, @"Hutson", nil);
ABAddressBookAddRecord(libroDirec, persona, nil);
ABAddressBookSave(libroDirec, nil);

CFRelease(persona);
}



this code is for remove one record in the addressbook like the record in this case with the name kate. good luck.

-(void)editarid)sender
{

ABAddressBookRef libroDirec = ABAddressBookCreate();

CFArrayRef allPeople = ABAddressBookCopyArrayOfAllPeople(libroDirec);

CFIndex xPeople = ABAddressBookGetPersonCount(libroDirec);


for (int i=0; i <xPeople; i++ )
{
ABRecordRef ref = CFArrayGetValueAtIndex(allPeople, i);
CFStringRef nombreX = ABRecordCopyValue(ref, kABPersonFirstNameProperty);


CFStringRef cadena = CFSTR("kate");



if (CFStringCompare(nombreX, cadena , 0) == kCFCompareEqualTo )
{
ABAddressBookRemoveRecord(libroDirec, ref, nil);
ABAddressBookSave(libroDirec, nil);

}



}


hi, hi, secrets,
don't more tv, get down of the cloud programmers, we share, we aren't FBI agents, or anything else like secrets.

[sabross]

Originally Posted by kainjow

Did you link in the entire framework?

Hi I'm having the same problem, and I linked the framework using Ctrl-Click Frameworks>add>existing framework and choosing "AddressBook Framework"

I add #import <AddressBook/AddressBook.h> and then if i try

ABAddressBook *ab = [ABAddressBook sharedAddressBook];

I get the error:
ABAddressBook undeclared

but no error in the "import" line.

What am I missing to link correctly the library??

Thx,

Dani

[MediadorAv]

hi, you have problem because in the iPhone is diferent like this:

addressBookRef ab=AddressBookCreate();

in the example above you see something like this

[korzieher]

hi there

has anyone ever managed to add an ABMutableMultiValue to an ABRecord?

what i'm trying to do is to add a new record to the addressbook.
i managed to add a record with several properties as described earlier in this thread. but when it comes to multivalues i don't have a clue...
basically i want to add for example an address. i noticed that there are constants (keys) like 'kABPersonAddressZIPKey' and a 'kABPersonAddressProperty'. but how can i add the zip key to the record?

thanks for any help.

now i came up with this.

current = ABPersonCreate();
ABRecordSetValue(current, kABPersonFirstNameProperty, @"foo", nil);
ABRecordSetValue(current, kABPersonLastNameProperty, @"bar", nil);

ABMutableMultiValueRef address = ABMultiValueCreateMutable(kABPersonAddressProperty);
if(!ABMultiValueAddValueAndLabel(address, @"street 123", kABPersonAddressStreetKey, nil))
	NSLog(@"adding value/label didn't work.");

if(!ABRecordSetValue(current, kABPersonAddressProperty, address, nil))
	NSLog(@"setting value didn't work.");

if(!ABAddressBookAddRecord(addressBook, current, nil))
	NSLog(@"adding didn't work.");

ABAddressBookSave(addressBook, nil);

but it crashes on the last line with the messages

*** -[NSCFString count]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x63e0
*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '*** -[NSCFString count]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x63e0'

[pranav]

contactFirstLast is autorelased object, so you should not release it.

Originally Posted by StrAbZ

Thank you for all the answers in this thread,
it was very helpful !

I've tried to use the SimpleDrillDown example from the apple dev center, and replace the list of name define in the code by the name from the address book, but as you can imagine i have a probleme.

This is the code i use to retrieve data from the addressBook.

ABAddressBookRef addressBook = ABAddressBookCreate();

CFArrayRef allPeople = ABAddressBookCopyArrayOfAllPeople(addressBook);
CFIndex nPeople = ABAddressBookGetPersonCount(addressBook);

NSMutableArray *masterList = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
for (int i = 0; i < nPeople; i++) {
	ABRecordRef ref = CFArrayGetValueAtIndex(allPeople, i);
	CFStringRef firstName = ABRecordCopyValue(ref, kABPersonFirstNameProperty);
	CFStringRef lastName = ABRecordCopyValue(ref, kABPersonLastNameProperty);
	NSString *contactFirstLast = [NSString stringWithFormat: @"%@", (NSString *)lastName];
	CFRelease(firstName);
	CFRelease(lastName);
	[masterList addObject:contactFirstLast];
	[contactFirstLast release];
}
	
self.list = masterList;
[masterList release];

the problem is : if i wrote the ligne :

NSString *contactFirstLast = (NSString *)lastName;

I can get all lastName, but when i try to use :

NSString *contactFirstLast = [NSString stringWithFormat: @"%@", (NSString *)lastName];

it doesn't work, did you have any idea of the probleme?

It look likes

[NSString stringWithFormat: @"LN: %@", (NSString *)lastName]

and

(NSString *)lastName

are not the same kind of NSString... i really can't understand...

Thanks

[StrAbZ]

It was a years ago (starting objective c), but thx for replying ^^
I learned a lot since that post