GKPeoplePickerNavigationController

Ever wanted to customize Apple's ABPeoplePickerNavigationController in some way? You probably figured out that it's quite impossible to do it. I ran into the same issue that's why I wrote a dead simple drop in replacement for it.

It supports pre selecting a contact and can pre fill the search bar.

It's tested under iOS 5.0 and iOS 6.0 and supports ARC.

How to use it

• just drag and drop the files under "GKClasses" into your project.
• add the AddressBook.framework and AddressBookUI.framework to your project
• look at the sample code below.
• this project contains a sample project as well, just have a look at the implementation of ViewController.m
• have fun and follow @gekitz.

Sample Code

How to preselect a contact:

ABRecordRef person = <# retrieve person from somewhere #>

[GKPeoplePickerNavigationController requestAccessToAddressBookWithCompletion:^(bool granted, CFErrorRef error) {
    if (granted) {
        
        GKPeoplePickerNavigationController *ctr = [[GKPeoplePickerNavigationController alloc] init];
        ctr.preselectedPerson = person;
        [self presentViewController:ctr animated:YES completion:nil];
        
    }
}];

This results in:

How to prefill the UISearchBar:

    [GKPeoplePickerNavigationController requestAccessToAddressBookWithCompletion:^(bool granted, CFErrorRef error) {
    if (granted) {
        
        GKPeoplePickerNavigationController *ctr = [[GKPeoplePickerNavigationController alloc] init];
        ctr.prefilledSearchTerm = @"Georg";
        [self presentViewController:ctr animated:YES completion:nil];

    }
}];

This results in:

License

Under MIT.