addressbook

iPhone: AddressBook loaded in a Tab's View

I have what I thought would be a simple task. I have a sample project that will let a user click a button to pull up the AddressBook user interface within a view. From what I see most of the work is done here: -(IBAction) checkOutBookid)sender { ABPeoplePickerNavigationController *peoplePicker=[[ABPeoplePickerNavigationController alloc]...

Address Book is returning old values

Hi there, I am having a problem with the AddressBook framework. It all seems to be stemming from ABCopyRecordForUniqueId returning a record with old data. Example: I run up the program below in one terminal window - it shows the current data. I make a change through the address book UI - my program continues to show old data. I run ...

ABPersonViewController Add Field birthday address book iPhone. SAVE button is disabled

Hi. presently i am dealing with an application related to address book of iPhone. The hierarchy is as follows: John(contact's name) --->(Edit content using ABPersonViewController) ---->Add Field ----> Add Birthday(SAVE button is disabled) A new contact is added to it using ABNewPersonViewController. In Add Field of new contact, birth...

iPhone SDK - How to know how contacts are ordered and displayed in the default Contacts app?

Hi everyone, I'm working on a app with Facebook integration. When I list Facebook contacts, I would like to use the same 'Sort Order' and 'Display Order' as in the Contacts app on the device. The way contacts are displayed on the default Contacts app, can be adjusted in the Settings app. My question is, do you know if I can access th...

How can I add custom fields to contacts info in iphone contact list

Hello, I am developing a app in which I have to add custom contacts to iPhone Contact list. To elaborate that every contact in iPhone have a definite set of fields which we can be used to save contact info. I want to know if we can add custom fields apart from that ofexisting options in iPhone. If its possible please show me the w...

ABPeoplePickerView - How do I get it to scroll to a selected record?

I'm using the ABPeoplePicker in a Mac OS X application. I've hooked up a button that changes the selected record to the default 'Me' record. This works fine, and the record gets selected, but, I need to scroll the table to see the selected record. NSTableView has the -scrollRowToVisible:(NSInteger)rowIndex method, but I can't find anyt...

How to add a contact to the iPhone's Address Book from a Web Page?

In the desktop Mac world, if I were to click on a link in a web page which linked to a VCF file, this file would be opened in the Address Book application. In the iPhone world, however, doing that results in the message "Download failed. Safari cannot download this file" being displayed. So, my question is, is it actually possible to a...

Need advice on implementation for "heavy" operation involving iPhone (a lot of) AddressBook contacts.

Hello everyone, I am developing an SMS service application. At some point the user has to select the contacts he wants to send the SMS so he has 2 options. "Select all contacts" or "Select contacts". I have some issues regarding on how to implement the "Select all contacts" method since I want to achieve the following functionality: ...

getting access to outlook exchange global address book

i am building a csharp application and i would like a dropdown list of all users in my outlook global address book (the same one when i click on To: from outlook gui. is this possible to get this progrmaticall? what are the security requirements here? ...

On iPhone OS, how can I programmatically check if a contact exists in the address book?

I've added a feature to my app that allows the user to save a business's contact details to the address book; however, to guard against adding multiple entries I want to check that the entry doesn't already exist. Any idea how to do this? The iPhone developer documentation seems a little unclear. I'm using the C api to add the contact. ...

Get address in contacts using Android SDK

I'm trying to retrieve the contact's name, phone number, and address from the android contact list. The name and phone are pretty straight forward but the address seems to not be accessible with the 1.6 api level. Has someone figured out how to get a contact's address? Also there's a completely new api in 2.0. How can I take advantage o...

iPhone SDK Accessing Address book company contact

Hello I have been able to use the SDK to access Address Book contacts for people, but whenever I pick a contact who is a company, my app crashes. does anyone know the property for the company field? does anyone know the code to make it work? thanks in advance ...

Get Email address from iPhone Address Book

I am currently able to successfully access and get data from the peoplePickerNavigationController, but what I would like to do is have the email address of the contact be accessed, then the modal window dismissed when the contact name is pressed. Scenario: "Button is clicked to add a contact AddressBook Modal Window slides into view Na...

BlackBerry - read custom ringtone name from address book contact list?

Actually I am assigning custom ringtone with contact number in a custom database contact list. Now I am having problem with the reading to that contact list. If anyone having any idea about this problem pls pls help. UPDATE public void showAddressBook() { try { ContactList contactList = (ContactList) PIM.getInstance() ...

AddressBookUI like TableView for my application?

Hi guys, I've got a table-view with more than a thousand entries! That's just crazy, I know, but it makes no sense to split it into a tree. So what I'd like to do is to have an A-Z index and a search-bar just like in address book. Is there such a framework around that lets me set my own datasource that has nothing to do with people and...

ABRecordID for a record in addressbook(unique id for inserted record in addressbook)

Hello, I got stuck while adding records to contacts of iphone. Situation is this I have a view in which contacts are created and inserted to contacts of iphone. What I want is Is there a way to find some unique ID of the (record) contact which is inserted. Which will be required to access the contacts in some other view. Please en...

disable add fields option while editing contacts in iphone

Hello folks, I have a query regarding AddressBookUI ABPersonViewController *personController=[[ABPersonViewController alloc] init]; ABAddressBookRef addressBook=ABAddressBookCreate(); //ABRecordRef aRecord=ABAddressBookGetPersonWithRecordID(addressBook, 25); personController.displayedPerson=ABAddressBookGetPersonWithRecordID(a...

BlackBerry - get only updated contacts from address book

Hi, I have an application for get and send contacts from blackberry but i need to send only updted contacts instead of all, so can i get only updated contacts from blackberry ? ...

ABPersonViewController - callback from "Edit" button - objective C

Hi all I am using ABPersonViewController and adding a label on the "Info" view. The thing is: when I click the "Edit" button, since the : personController.allowsEditing = YES; my view goes to the "edit view" and my Label is still there (not as I planed ) I am trying to figure out if I can be "notify" when the user pressed the "Edit" butt...

Iphone addressbook

Hi all, I have used addressbook framework in my application.I want to allow user to edit and delete cotacts from my application.Which notification get generated when user edit the contact,also how to use delete functionality of addressbook framework. ...