I am currently accessing the user's contacts/address book. When i compile the program through xcode and launch the iPhone simulator, their is data.... because I went into the iPhone simulator contacts app and added them myself to see if the app can actually access the contacts database.
Now when I deploy the app through my iPhone, not the simulator, the app shows no contacts, no info. I understand their are some complications with iOS6 and apple changing some privacy settings around.
Here's my function I have within one of my view controller classes, I call the function
[self getPersonOutOfAddressBook]; to execute the function.
- (void)getPersonOutOfAddressBook
{
CFErrorRef error = NULL;
ABAddressBookRef addressBook = ABAddressBookCreateWithOptions(NULL, &error);
if (addressBook != nil)
{
NSLog(@"Succesful.");
NSArray *allContacts = (__bridge NSArray *)ABAddressBookCopyArrayOfAllPeople(addressBook);
NSLog(@"Number of users: %d ", [allContacts count]);
NSUInteger i = 0;
for (i = 0; i < [allContacts count]; i++)
{
Person *person = [[Person alloc] init];
ABRecordRef contactPerson = (__bridge ABRecordRef)allContacts[i];
NSString *firstName = (__bridge NSString *)ABRecordCopyValue(contactPerson, kABPersonFirstNameProperty);
NSString *lastName = (__bridge NSString *)ABRecordCopyValue(contactPerson, kABPersonLastNameProperty);
NSString *fullName = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@ %@", firstName, lastName];
person.firstName = firstName;
person.lastName = lastName;
person.fullName = fullName;
//email
ABMultiValueRef emails = ABRecordCopyValue(contactPerson, kABPersonEmailProperty);
NSUInteger j = 0;
for (j = 0; j < ABMultiValueGetCount(emails); j++)
{
NSString *email = (__bridge_transfer NSString *)ABMultiValueCopyValueAtIndex(emails, j);
if (j == 0)
{
person.homeEmail = email;
NSLog(@"person.homeEmail = %@ ", person.homeEmail);
}
else if (j==1)
person.workEmail = email;
}
[self.tableData addObject:person];
}
}
CFRelease(addressBook);
}
My output is
2013-03-04 22:29:00.094 ourApplication[5562:907] Succesful.
2013-03-04 22:29:00.099 ourApplication[5562:907] Number of users: 0
on my IPHONE
and on my Mac
2013-03-04 22:31:41.799 ourApplication[12591:12b03] Succesful.
2013-03-04 22:31:41.801 ourApplication[12591:12b03] Number of users: 6
And so on...
Weird!!! HELP :(