addressbook

I'm developing an application that is showing the iPhone contacts. The ABAddressBookRef returns duplicate entries for a contact that appears only once in the iPhone contacts application. Looking on the contact card (from the iPhone contacts), in the bottom there is a section called "Linked Contacts" so obviously apple "merge"/"unify" these two entries into the one i see. The question here is what is the best way to mimic the same behavior so my app will show only one entry? is there an API that returns the merged/unified entries from the address book? Min Tsai To create a list of contacts that

I have a program where for certain code paths, the address book constants (such as kABPersonEmailProperty, kABPersonAddressProperty) evaluate to their normal non-zero value. However, if I follow a different code path, all these constants evaluate to zero. Furthermore, once I follow the "successful" code path, if I take the problematic code path it works. Is this some kind of compile linkage issue ? I could also be over-releasing a variable somewhere. Okay, mystery solved. To Apple's credit, the behavior is documented. See link text "Special Considerations: The value of these constants is

I have been using the AddressBook api of the iPhone for some time now. But doing some refactoring to improve application performance I have decided to "reuse" the ABAddressBookRef returned by AddressBookCreate because I noticed there are large performance improvements doing that. However, I am getting EXEC_BAD_ACCESS errors now randomly, and I think the reason is in this "caveat" in the iPhone reference implementation: http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/ContactData/Conceptual/AddressBookProgrammingGuideforiPhone/300-BasicObjects/BasicObjects.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid

I'm trying to set the contact image with the code below. I am not seeing any errors, and the image is not saved to the contact entry in the address book. Please help! I must be doing something wrong... - (BOOL)peoplePickerNavigationController:(ABPeoplePickerNavigationController *)peoplePicker shouldContinueAfterSelectingPerson:(ABRecordRef)person { [abcontroller setDisplayedPerson:person]; UIImage *im = [UIImage imageNamed:@"image1.jpg"]; NSData *dataRef = UIImagePNGRepresentation(im); CFErrorRef error; ABAddressBookRef addressBook = ABAddressBookCreate(); NSLog(@"Error:",error); if

I would like to add the ability to save a contact (phone number, name, address and email) in the iOS address book by clicking on a button in my application! How can I do this? Its so easy and follows below steps, First, you have import following frameworks, #import <AddressBook/AddressBook.h> #import <AddressBookUI/AddressBookUI.h Second, write the following code in your button action and modify the code according to your needs, NSString * addressString1 = [appDelegate getCurrentSummary]; NSString * addressString2 = [appDelegate getCurrentTubeImage]; NSString * cityName = [appDelegate