How to extract name from a contact in iOS?

Question

I have picked up a contact from the address book

Now I need to display the name to the text view UI in the same view controller.

How to extract the name from the ABRecord?

This is my code.

@IBAction func addContact(sender: AnyObject) {
    var peoplePicker = ABPeoplePickerNavigationController()
    peoplePicker.peoplePickerDelegate = self
    self.presentViewController(peoplePicker, animated: true, completion: nil)

}

func peoplePickerNavigationControllerDidCancel(peoplePicker: ABPeoplePickerNavigationController!) {
    dismissViewControllerAnimated(true, completion: nil)
}


func peoplePickerNavigationController(peoplePicker: ABPeoplePickerNavigationController!, didSelectPerson person: ABRecord!) {

    var name : String! = ABRecordCopyCompositeName(person)
}

Here the function ABRecordCopyCompositeName return unmanaged I can't force cast to String. It says not convertible.

I'm new to iOS dev. please help.

You need to convert the CFString to String. See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25351842/convert-cfstring-to-nsstring-swift — qwerty_so, Dec 13 '14 at 08:43

Vitalii Gozhenko · Accepted Answer · 2014-12-14T10:05:50.497

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Use takeUnretainedValue() and takeRetainedValue() to get CFString object and cast it to NSString

func peoplePickerNavigationController(peoplePicker: ABPeoplePickerNavigationController!, didSelectPerson person: ABRecord!) {
    let nameCFString : CFString = ABRecordCopyCompositeName(person).takeRetainedValue()
    let name : NSString = nameCFString as NSString
}

edited Dec 14 '14 at 10:05

answered Dec 13 '14 at 12:39

Vitalii Gozhenko

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score -2 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 20 '14 at 09:11

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You can also check KBContactsSelection which allows you to search and select multiple contacts and is easily customizable using elegant Builder Pattern.

KBContactsSelection screen

answered Dec 20 '14 at 09:11

Kamil

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How to extract name from a contact in iOS?

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