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My app needs to associate instances of a custom class with contact records in the iPhone's AddressBook. Everything's all well and good when I present the ABPeoplePickerNavigationController and allow the user to pick an existing contact. Problem is there's no obvious way to allow a user to easily ADD a contact record if the one they're looking for doesn't already exist in their AddressBook. How are people getting from ABPeoplePickerNavigationController to ABNewPersonViewController in a way that's easy & intuitive for the user? You can create a UIBarButton and add it to the UINavigationBar of

I have two tableViewControllers. The first one has a list of contacts. The another one shows detailed person's information. A chunk of code of first tableViewController ABAddressBookRef addressBook = ABAddressBookCreate(); ABRecordRef source = ABAddressBookCopyDefaultSource(addressBook); NSArray *allPeople = (__bridge_transfer NSArray*)ABAddressBookCopyArrayOfAllPeopleInSourceWithSortOrdering(addressBook, source,kABPersonSortByFirstName); for ( int i = 0; i < [allPeople count]; i++ ) { ... contactClass = [[ContactClass alloc] initWithName:name surName:surName manID:[allPeople objectAtIndex:i]]

My app registers the callback once: notificationAddressBook = ABAddressBookCreate(); ABAddressBookRegisterExternalChangeCallback(notificationAddressBook, MyAddressBookExternalChangeCallback, self); Then in my callback: void MyAddressBookExternalChangeCallback (ABAddressBookRef notifyAddressBook,CFDictionaryRef info,void *context) { NSLog(@"in MyAddressBook External Change Callback"); ABAddressBookRevert(notifyAddressBook); CFArrayRef peopleRefs = ABAddressBookCopyArrayOfAllPeopleInSource(notifyAddressBook, kABSourceTypeLocal); CFIndex count = CFArrayGetCount(peopleRefs); NSMutableArray* people

Apple features a nice comprehensive and small example, "QuickContacts" ( developer.apple.com/library/IOs/samplecode/QuickContacts/Introduction/Intro.html ), outlining the basic usage of the Address Book UI Framework . - The downloadable sourcecode works as described (once you add a person named "Appleseed" to your addressbook or change the person-name in line 246 (of QuickContactsViewController.m) to something that already exists in your addressbook). Question: How can we modify the function -(void)showPersonViewController function in such a way that the ABPersonViewController "picker" is

I am developing an app using XCode 4.2 and I am trying to create an ABPerson using initWithVCardRepresentation and/or ABPersonCreatePeopleInSourceWithVCardRepresentation , but I can t find a working example . can someone help? I get the VCard in an NSString format.... Thanks This is a full example and it works perfectly, it bases on the latest iOS 8. First of all you should check authorization status and request access right if not, then save the vcard, let just review the code below: if (ABAddressBookGetAuthorizationStatus() == kABAuthorizationStatusAuthorized){ NSLog(@"Authorized"); [self