Demonstration of using the Address Book People Picker as well as using a callback for Address Book.

I show how to implement the People Picker with the ability to edit existing contacts or create new contacts. Two methods are shown.

Method 1

The first method (must uncomment the define for PERSON_VIEW_CONTROLLER_METHOD1 in AddressBookPeoplePickerViewController.m) is based on the nice blog article by Scott Sherwood at:

http://www.scott-sherwood.com/ios5-removing-the-cancel-button-on-abpeoplepickernavigationcontroller/

I've corrected the example to fix an issue with hitting the Cancel button while editing.

Clicking Cancel in the corrected example will dismiss the entire People Picker. There was no way to simply stop editing mode without also committing any changes that may have been made.

Method 2

The second method (comment out the define for PERSON_VIEW_CONTROLLER_METHOD1 in AddressBookPeoplePickerViewController.m) is a modification to Scott Sherwood's approach. Here we manually put up the ABPersonViewController in the protocol method peoplePickerNavigationController:shouldContinueAfterSelectingPerson:

This allows me to simplify the code and not worry about modifying the navigation item buttons for the ABPersonViewController view.

The issue I noted with this method is that the information in the ABPeoplePickerNavigationController view (names) is not automatically updated when a name is edited (and user clicks Done). There is no public API exposed for performing a refresh. What I do here is to perform a dummy save when I detect a change in the Address Book. This dummy Address Book save will force a refresh of the People Picker table view.