How to select a contact with ABPeoplePickerNavigationController in Swift?
I have added the ABPeoplePickerNavigationController into my first view controller. I want that when I select a contact show the info to show in other view controller, but I'm trying use my code and this not show never when I click in a contact. This only open the contact into native app ABPeoplePickerNavigationController.
var people = ABPeoplePickerNavigationController()
var addressBook: ABAddressBookRef?
func extractABAddressBookRef(abRef: Unmanaged<ABAddressBookRef>!) -> ABAddressBookRef? {
if let ab = abRef {
self.view.addSubview(people.view)
return Unmanaged<NSObject>.fromOpaque(ab.toOpaque()).takeUnretainedValue()
}
return nil
}
I tried this function
func peoplePickerNavigationController(peoplePicker: ABPeoplePickerNavigationController!,didSelectPerson person: ABRecordRef!) {
var unmanagedEmails = ABRecordCopyValue(people, kABPersonEmailProperty)
let emailObj: ABMultiValueRef = Unmanaged.fromOpaque(unmanagedEmails.toOpaque()).takeUnretainedValue() as NSObject as ABMultiValueRef
var index = 0 as CFIndex
var unmanagedEmail = ABMultiValueCopyValueAtIndex(emailObj, index)
var emailAddress:String = Unmanaged.fromOpaque(unmanagedEmail.toOpaque()).takeUnretainedValue() as NSObject as String
println(emailAddress)
}
Thanks!
Answer
Here is the latest framework for iOS 9 - ContactsUI
import ContactsUI
Conform to the CNContactPickerDelegate (No required methods)
Create a contacts picker object and present it:
let peoplePicker = CNContactPickerViewController() peoplePicker.delegate = self self.presentViewController(peoplePicker, animated: true, completion: nil)Dismiss the CNContactPickerViewController in the contactPickerDidCancel delegate function
func contactPickerDidCancel(picker: CNContactPickerViewController) { picker.dismissViewControllerAnimated(true, completion: nil) }Here is how I Accessed a contacts name, phone numbers, phone number labels, and photo using the didSelectContact delegate function:
func contactPicker(picker: CNContactPickerViewController, didSelectContact contact: CNContact) { //Dismiss the picker VC picker.dismissViewControllerAnimated(true, completion: nil) //See if the contact has multiple phone numbers if contact.phoneNumbers.count > 1 { //If so we need the user to select which phone number we want them to use let multiplePhoneNumbersAlert = UIAlertController(title: "Which one?", message: "This contact has multiple phone numbers, which one did you want use?", preferredStyle: UIAlertControllerStyle.Alert) //Loop through all the phone numbers that we got back for number in contact.phoneNumbers { //Each object in the phone numbers array has a value property that is a CNPhoneNumber object, Make sure we can get that if let actualNumber = number.value as? CNPhoneNumber { //Get the label for the phone number var phoneNumberLabel = number.label //Strip off all the extra crap that comes through in that label phoneNumberLabel = phoneNumberLabel.stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString("_", withString: "", options: NSStringCompareOptions.LiteralSearch, range: nil) phoneNumberLabel = phoneNumberLabel.stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString("$", withString: "", options: NSStringCompareOptions.LiteralSearch, range: nil) phoneNumberLabel = phoneNumberLabel.stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString("!", withString: "", options: NSStringCompareOptions.LiteralSearch, range: nil) phoneNumberLabel = phoneNumberLabel.stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString("<", withString: "", options: NSStringCompareOptions.LiteralSearch, range: nil) phoneNumberLabel = phoneNumberLabel.stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString(">", withString: "", options: NSStringCompareOptions.LiteralSearch, range: nil) //Create a title for the action for the UIAlertVC that we display to the user to pick phone numbers let actionTitle = phoneNumberLabel + " - " + actualNumber.stringValue //Create the alert action let numberAction = UIAlertAction(title: actionTitle, style: UIAlertActionStyle.Default, handler: { (theAction) -> Void in //Create an empty string for the contacts name var nameToSave = "" //See if we can get A frist name if contact.givenName == "" { //If Not check for a last name if contact.familyName == "" { //If no last name set name to Unknown Name nameToSave = "Unknown Name" }else{ nameToSave = contact.familyName } }else{ nameToSave = contact.givenName } // See if we can get image data if let imageData = contact.imageData { //If so create the image let userImage = UIImage(data: imageData) } //Do what you need to do with your new contact information here! //Get the string value of the phone number like this: actualNumber.stringValue }) //Add the action to the AlertController multiplePhoneNumbersAlert.addAction(numberAction) } } //Add a cancel action let cancelAction = UIAlertAction(title: "Cancel", style: UIAlertActionStyle.Cancel, handler: { (theAction) -> Void in //Cancel action completion }) //Add the cancel action multiplePhoneNumbersAlert.addAction(cancelAction) //Present the ALert controller self.presentViewController(multiplePhoneNumbersAlert, animated: true, completion: nil) }else{ //Make sure we have at least one phone number if contact.phoneNumbers.count > 0 { //If so get the CNPhoneNumber object from the first item in the array of phone numbers if let actualNumber = contact.phoneNumbers.first?.value as? CNPhoneNumber { //Get the label of the phone number var phoneNumberLabel = contact.phoneNumbers.first!.label //Strip out the stuff you don't need phoneNumberLabel = phoneNumberLabel.stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString("_", withString: "", options: NSStringCompareOptions.LiteralSearch, range: nil) phoneNumberLabel = phoneNumberLabel.stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString("$", withString: "", options: NSStringCompareOptions.LiteralSearch, range: nil) phoneNumberLabel = phoneNumberLabel.stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString("!", withString: "", options: NSStringCompareOptions.LiteralSearch, range: nil) phoneNumberLabel = phoneNumberLabel.stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString("<", withString: "", options: NSStringCompareOptions.LiteralSearch, range: nil) phoneNumberLabel = phoneNumberLabel.stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString(">", withString: "", options: NSStringCompareOptions.LiteralSearch, range: nil) //Create an empty string for the contacts name var nameToSave = "" //See if we can get A frist name if contact.givenName == "" { //If Not check for a last name if contact.familyName == "" { //If no last name set name to Unknown Name nameToSave = "Unknown Name" }else{ nameToSave = contact.familyName } }else{ nameToSave = contact.givenName } // See if we can get image data if let imageData = contact.imageData { //If so create the image let userImage = UIImage(data: imageData) } //Do what you need to do with your new contact information here! //Get the string value of the phone number like this: actualNumber.stringValue } }else{ //If there are no phone numbers associated with the contact I call a custom funciton I wrote that lets me display an alert Controller to the user self.displayAlert("Missing info", message: "You have no phone numbers associated with this contact") } } }