Filtering out email addresses from ABPeoplePickerNavigationController

Question

I'm using ABPeoplePicker to show a list of contacts.

I'd like to filter this list of contacts to only show the contacts that have email addresses. How would I do so?

Iowa

Answer 1

I needed it, so I started working on something like that. Check out https://github.com/stuffmc/MCFilteredPeoplePickerNavigationController

Flock

You put a "How to use" but you show nothing about actually filtering. – Dubonnet

It's for the user to filter. But if you look at the code (specifically at loadContacts you should find it — check github.com/stuffmc/MCFilteredPeoplePickerNavigationController/… – Flock

Ah, I see. I was looking for something where I (as the dev) could filter the list to only show contacts with emails :D – Dubonnet

Turns out that's also something I do, if you look here you'll see I only take those contacts having a kABPersonAddressProperty (an address). – Flock

Answer 2

here is the good blog tutorial for extracting address book values,

http://blog.slaunchaman.com/2009/01/21/cocoa-touch-tutorial-extract-address-book-address-values-on-iphone-os/

try with below:

ABPeoplePickerNavigationController *peoplePicker = [[ABPeoplePickerNavigationController alloc] init];
    [peoplePicker setPeoplePickerDelegate:self];
    [peoplePicker setDisplayedProperties:[NSArray arrayWithObject:[NSNumber numberWithInt:kABPersonEmailProperty]]];

Pricefixing

This code doesn´t answer the question. This displays all the contacts, and when you select it only shows email (or "No email addresses" when the contact is without email). – Theis

Answer 3

ABContactHelper is a greater wrapper for the Addressbook and has some methods for filtering contacts based on various things.

https://github.com/erica/ABContactHelper

Blight

Answer 4

I'm trying to do a similar thing. I've gotten an instance of ABAddressBook, removed the entries I don't want, then set picker.addressBook = filteredBook. It...KINDA works. The list seems to be filtered, but entries are duplicated like it expects the full list to be there and it just copies existing entries until it has the expected count, or something.

Ameliaamelie

Did you find a reason / resolution? – Wrapping

@Wrapping I did not, I'm afraid. I haven't really done much with it since. – Ameliaamelie