Open Contact List at Specific Contact

Question

I have an iPhone app that uses a ABPeoplePickerNavigationController to pick out a contact. First time you select a contact, the contact list obviously starts at the top, under the letter 'A'. However, say you selected a contact under 'M'; if you then later want to change which contact is selected, I want to initialise the contact list so that it's already scrolled to the 'M' section.

Here's the code I use to open the contact list:

ABPeoplePickerNavigationController *picker =
                    [[ABPeoplePickerNavigationController alloc] init];
                    picker.peoplePickerDelegate = self;                    
                    [self presentModalViewController:picker animated:YES];
                    [picker release];

I can't find any information in the reference guide on how to configure the scroll offset where the controller opens.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 21 '11 at 20:47

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This functionality is unavailable in ABPeoplePickerNavigationController. However you can implement a custom UITableViewController which does that using the AddressBook framework.

answered May 21 '11 at 20:47

Deepak Danduprolu

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 23 '11 at 08:58

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Try to use the [ABAddressBook]

ABAddressBookRef addressBook = ABAddressBookCreate();
CFArrayRef allPeople = ABAddressBookCopyArrayOfAllPeople(addressBook);
CFIndex nPeople = ABAddressBookGetPersonCount(addressBook);

for( int i = 0 ; i < nPeople ; i++ )
{
    ABRecordRef person = CFArrayGetValueAtIndex(allPeople, i );
    NSString* name = [(NSString *)ABRecordCopyValue(person, kABPersonFirstNameProperty) autorelease];
}

answered May 23 '11 at 08:58

Basbous

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I'm afraid I'm not entirely sure what this code is supposed to do - is this intended as an expansion of Deepak's answer? – andygeers May 23 '11 at 10:06
no this code iterate over all all contact in iphone address book so you can get the data using Copy Value and property id. – Basbous May 23 '11 at 12:47
Right... I'm not sure how that relates to the question, I'm afraid? – andygeers May 24 '11 at 09:25

Open Contact List at Specific Contact

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