Comments on: iPhone Programming: Adding a Contact to the iPhone Address Book

By: Christian

Christian — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:43:01 +0000

@Thomas: Had the same issue, here is the workaround: CFTypeRef ctr = CFBridgingRetain(addressDictionary); ABMultiValueAddValueAndLabel(multiAddress, ctr, kABWorkLabel, NULL); CFBridgingRelease(ctr);

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 01:28:28 +0000

Help. I am using iOS5 and xCode 4.2 and everything works accept adding the address. I get the following error in the code:
Implicit conversion of an Objective-C pointer to 'CFTypeREF' … not allowed with ARC
Here:
ABMultiValueAddValueAndLabel(multiAddress, addressDictionary, kABWorkLabel, NULL);

xCode does not like the addressDictionary there.

By: Philip

Philip — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:31:53 +0000

Hello.
I found the answer to my question above. The reason this happened was because i had an external contacts db (exchange server), the contact was added but it wasn't able to add the custom label. When i changed to have the iPhone as default for contacts it worked.
Maybe this helps someone.
/Philip

By: Philip

Philip — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 09:31:01 +0000

Hello.

Thank you for a great post. It has helped me alot.
However, i wonder if you or anyone else can help me. I'm building an app that adds persons to the adressbook. To these persons i want to add a custom label for the phone.
I used this code to add the custom label, and in the iphone simulator the phone nr is displayed with the custom label, but in the real phone, the number is added to the home label.
     ABMutableMultiValueRef multiPhone = ABMultiValueCreateMutable(kABMultiStringPropertyType);

       ABMultiValueAddValueAndLabel(multiPhone, @"1-987-654-3210", @"Custom label", NULL);
       ABRecordSetValue(newPerson, kABPersonPhoneProperty, multiPhone,nil);
       CFRelease(multiPhone);
Any help is greatly appreciated.
/Philip

By: Johny

Johny — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 12:07:55 +0000

Hey,
Can anybody help me with making any particular contact as read-only?
I made an app which added few contacts to iPhone's address book. And now I want to make the contacts as read-only which I added through my App.
Is there any way to do so?
Johny

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By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 11 May 2010 13:52:45 +0000

Thanks a lot for this! This is great stuff!

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Cheers

Tom

By: jimzhao

jimzhao — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 07:37:37 +0000

hi, Ankit;

add the ABPersonRef to addressbook, then save the addressbook,
then, your ABRecordID recID=ABRecordGetRecordID(aRecord); will not return -1.

code:
ABAddressBookAddRecord(addressbook, aRef, (CFErrorRef*)&err);
ABAddressBookSave(addressbook, (CFErrorRef*)&err);

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:27:49 +0000

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