abaddressbook

I am trying to understand the ABAdressBookCreateWithOptions and ABAddressBookRequestAccessWithCompletion methods in iOS 6. The most information i have been able to find is the following, "To request access to contact data, call the ABAddressBookRequestAccessWithCompletion function after calling the ABAddressBookCreateWithOptions function." I believe together these methods should alert the user to decide whether to allow the application access to contacts, however when I use them I am seeing no prompt. Could someone provide some sample code of how these methods should be called together in a

I am attempting to create an app that can be used to search an Exchange GAL, however, I am finding the new 4.0 documentation regarding this subject confusing. Does anyone know how I might go about searching the GAL for names containing a specific string (e.g. "Smi")? My source code at the moment is all but useless as I am simply trying to wrap my head around how to specify that I am wanting only to search the GAL and not the local contacts on the device. Also, how is kABSourceTypeSearchableMask used? I am missing something fundamental here. From the documentation... Source Types These

My method of programmatically retrieving e-mail addresses from the Address Book no longer seems to work on iOS 6 devices. It worked in iOS 5 and oddly, still works in the iOS 6 Simulator. Is there a new way to programmatically retrieve contacts from a users' Address Book? ABAddressBookRef addressBook = ABAddressBookCreate(); CFArrayRef allPeople = ABAddressBookCopyArrayOfAllPeople(addressBook); CFIndex nPeople = ABAddressBookGetPersonCount(addressBook); self.contacts = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init]; int contactIndex = 0; for (int i = 0; i < nPeople; i++) { // Get the next address book record.

I am trying to write a simple method to ask a user for access to their address book and then print out the name of each person in the address book. I've seen a number of tutorials explaining how to do this in objective-C, but am having a hard time converting them to swift. Here's what I've done so far. The below block runs in my viewDidLoad() method and checks to see whether the user has authorized access to the address book or not, if they have not authorized access yet, the first if-statement will ask for access. This section works as expected. var emptyDictionary: CFDictionaryRef? var

I am using ABAddressBookRegisterExternalChangeCallback to get the external changes in AddressbookBook of the user. I am using the following code to register the callback: ABAddressBookRef ntificationaddressbook = ABAddressBookCreate(); ABAddressBookRegisterExternalChangeCallback(ntificationaddressbook, MyAddressBookExternalChangeCallback, self); and when this callback is called then MyAddressBookExternalChangeCallback is called successfully void MyAddressBookExternalChangeCallback (ABAddressBookRef ntificationaddressbook,CFDictionaryRef info,void *context) { NSLog(@"Changed Detected......"); }

Square's new card case iOS app has a "Create Account" feature. Tap it and it shows a form PREPOPULATED with the user's entry from the Address book. How is this possible? Anyone know? I thought this was unpossible, to get the user's info this way. It's not an iOS 5.0 thing, afaict. the only solution I could come up with was using the device name and then searching the addressbook for a match. this assumes someone would use a particular naming convention. I for example use 'Nik's iPhone' as my device name. I am also the only Nik in my addressbook, so for my scenario is works well to use the text

Does anyone have an example of how to obtain a specific ABSource from the ABAddressBook in iOS 4+? iOS 4+ provides new API that allows one to select a specific ABSource from the ABAddressBook. This may be useful as some operations, e.g. creating an ABGroup, are not supported in some sources (i.e. Exchange). "Not all source types support groups, more conspicuously, Exchange does not know anything about groups." - http://flavors.me/volonbolon#1a5/tumblr Attached are functions that leverage the new API to obtain sources of specific types which may be used in calls to ABGroupCreateInSource().