abaddressbook

I'm seeing really weird behaviour in my iOS app using the ABAddressBook library. Wondering if anyone can give me some insight into whats happening in the background or if I have a logic error I just can't see. Long story short I'm making a VOIP app that relies heavily on importing the user's contacts. I keep an online backup of these that are also used in conjunction with push notifications. As they are modified on the phone I need to send an update request to the server to keep them accurate. The problem is many user devices are frequently spamming the server with very large blocks of

I want to get the name of all the Exchange sources that my iPhone is synced to. For e.g. if I sync my device to Gmail and Hotmail accounts using ActiveSync Exchange, in the native contacts, I can see different sections based on the different accounts that I have setup. When I try to programmatically do the same, the only information I get is sourceType (which is Exchange in both cases) and sourceName (which is "Contacts" in both cases). There's no way for me to differentiate which is the Gmail "Contacts" and which is the Hotmail "Contacts". Anyone know how to do this? Here's my code:

Can one programmatically add/remove the contacts inside the CFArray returned by ABPersonCopyArrayOfAllLinkedPeople , thus, effectively, linking and un-linking different records of contacts from various sources to show as "unified" in the iOs phone book? As far as I've been able to determine, there is no public API exposed for linking or unlinking contacts, at least in the iOS 6 SDK. However, it does appear that you can create links between contacts by calling the undocumented, private function bool ABPersonLinkPerson(ABRecordRef from, ABRecordRef to) . That signature may not be exactly right-

My findings I am designing a logic to sync contact with my Backend. I gone through some apps that doing same thing in IOS. I will take the example of WhatsApp, I found that When I update any contact in Native Addressbook, it reflect that change into Whatsapp withing a fraction. My Concern I just want to know that how it is syncing in a very faster way. Even a new contact gets synced with its Remote server and get displayed on contact, and with the ability to initiate Whatsapp chat if that number is registered one. Summary of Queries So, in nutshell my queries are, How Whatsapp is syncing the

I'm trying to create a new record of Person thru my App. I have the name, email and phone nr. How can i pass them to the modal view of newPerson? I'm following Apple's docs, but i'm stuck. I'm using a ABNewPersonViewController. Is that correct? How do I fill the fields in the modal view? Thanks, RL Jason Coco If you want to display something in the ABNewPersonViewController, you have to create and set up an ABRecordRef for the properties you want to pre-fill and then set the displayedPerson property on ABNewPersonViewController. So a simple example may be: - (void)createNewPerson { // Create

I'm trying to implement the func personViewController(personViewController: ABPersonViewController!, shouldPerformDefaultActionForPerson person: ABRecord!, property property: ABPropertyID, identifier valueIdentifier: ABMultiValueIdentifier) -> Bool function, which is part of the ABPersonViewControllerDelegate protocol and is called whenever the user clicks on an item in the ABPersonViewController , such that any information the user selects will be copied to a [String : String] dictionary such that the property name will be the key for the property value: [..."kABPersonFirstNameProperty" :