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iPhone Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide
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iPhone Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide

by Aaron Hillegass, Joe Conway
April 2010
Beginner to intermediate
480 pages
10h 9m
English
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22. Address Book

Any application can access the iPhone’s contact database. You can read from and write to that database, and you also have access to the interface elements of the Address Book. In this chapter, you will add Address Book support to your Homepwner application. In particular, you will specify which contact in your address book will inherit a possession in the case of your death.

Figure 22.1. Homepwner with Address Book

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The People Picker

To get a person-picking interface like the Contacts application, you will use ABPeoplePickerNavigationController.

Open Homepwner.xcodeproj, and add both AddressBook.framework and AddressBookUI.framework ...

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