This question pertains to using the iPhone Simulator with Unit Tests. I have written a series of tests that test storing of our data, merged or not merged with data we can access from the user's co...

Hi Im writing a small android app that is closely working whit phone labels but I don't understand how I'm suposed to translate the uri values described in the Documentation. What i want to do is...

I am having a String to Number problem that is taking me days to resolve. So it all started out in my app that involves taking a phone number from the addressbook and making a call. Everything was ...

How do you get a person's image from an iPhone address book?

I have a problem that I can't quite seem to solve even though I've used resources I've found on Google and on here. I've only started being taught Swift and how to use Xcode about a month ago, henc...

I don't understand why my code doesn't compile with Swift. I am trying to convert this Objective-C code: CFErrorRef error = NULL; ABAddressBookRef addressBook = ABAddressBookCreateWithOptions(NUL...

I want my users to fill an email field by selecting a contact's email from their address books. I don't want them to scroll all the contacts whose emails are not set, so I want to filter the ones t...

I'm using this simple code to get all contacts of the address book in ios 7. I have 155 contacts in my address. When i log people firstNames i obtain 34 correct names picked (apparently randomly) f...

I'm stumped. I'm trying to get a list of all the email address a person has. I'm using the ABPeoplePickerNavigationController to select the person, which all seems fine. I'm setting my ABRecordRe...

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 B...

I extract addresses from text using OSX data detectors. This gives me address strings like “1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, CA”. In order to put such addresses into the OSX address book, I have to conv...

I want to search the iPhone address book for a specific phone number, and then retrieve the contact name. I am currently looping through all contacts and extracting the multivalue properties and co...

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?

I would like to obtain a list of all the properties of an ABPersonRef and ABGroupRef without having to use the iOS predefined keys of kABPersonFirstNameProperty, kABPersonLastNameProperty... I'm pl...

I am developing an app that connects to another iphone using bonjour. One of its features is when I connect to the other device it will automatically check if I have the other persons phone number....

I want to store person / company contacts with addresses and relations. Addresses can have multiple lines for streets, phonenumbers and emails. Would be also nice to have some kind of export ...

I am importing all the native address book contacts into my app. Currently, the alertview to ask for permission to 'allow access to the Contacts' is done at the launch of the app. How do I ...

placemark = [[MKPlacemark alloc]initWithCoordinate:storedCoordinate addressDictionary:addressDict]; I tried to create dictionary to use for code above, but nothing works :( NSDictionary *addre...

I'm new using the Address book and I would try to get some info for the contacts in the phone. Is possible get the image contact of all the contacts? This will be for iOS4 or higher. Thanks in adv...

I have an application that adds Contacts to the Address Book in iOS, and all I need is to store the ABRecordID or ABRecordref as soon as I save the contact. ABAddressBookAddRecord(addressbook, ne...

I have a little problem when I try to split delimited string into an Array. Basically, I want to pass result from MECARD QRCode and add new entry to addressBook. Here is my code (for "FirstName" f...

Is there a way to find Favorite contacts from the iOS Address Book API? I'm referring to the contacts a user places in his Favorites tab in the Contacts app.

I want to ask that how I can detect whether my AddressBook was first accessed by an app on ios6.0. I have learnt that no matter an app was reinstalled or not , the system only thinks that the first...

So with the new iOS 6 i understand we're suppose to call ABAddressBookRequestAccessWithCompletion when we want to access the user's address book. I wrote some new code in the code block that c...

Hi I have several Groups in my iPhone addressbook which contains several contacts. For Example: iPhone addressbook, Group1, Group2 etc. Each group contains contacts information like First Name,La...