ABPeoplePickerNavigationController alternative that allows selection of multiple people

Question

I'd like to prompt the user to select 1 or more people from their address book, but ABPeoplePickerNavigationController doesn't allow that (which is ironic, since it's people picker, not a person picker).

Before I go create my own, does anyone know of an alternative (open source) implementation of such a controller?

Answer 1

Actually, the People Picker delegate has the following:

peoplePickerNavigationController:shouldContinueAfterSelectingPerson:

Which, if you return NO, you can perform logic (queue up info, perform an animation, etc) and then continue displaying the picker until all people are picked from the picker.... say that 12 times fast.

Answer 2

Check this thread out:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1314653/deselectrowatindexpath-on-an-abpeoplepickernavigationcontroller

Not perfect, but a good start. Subclass ABPeoplePickerNavigationController and insert the code into:

• (BOOL)peoplePickerNavigationController:(ABPeoplePickerNavigationController*)peoplePicker shouldContinueAfterSelectingPerson:(ABRecordRef)person