Question

How can we customize the ABPeoplePickerNavigationViewController to display FullName in the first line and email,phone number in the next line. This should not happen on a contact select but should default when the ABPickerController view is loaded.

What I want is the regular functionalities of the ABPeoplePicker.. but the contacts display should have additional information explained above.

I think I would have to extend the ABPeoplePickerNavigationController? Any guidance on this would be greatly appreciated?

Answer 1

If you would want the ABPeoplePicker…. and the addressBook to work together dont quite have a solution.Tried the same thing but finally we spun out a new custom indexed table view. Was quite easy.
if you want an indexed tableView created please have a look at
indexed-ui-tableview

you could then change the following method for having information in multiple lines.

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {

static NSString *CellIdentifier = @"Cell";

UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
if (cell == nil) {
    cell = [[[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleSubtitle 
                                   reuseIdentifier:CellIdentifier] autorelease];
}
cell.textLabel.text = [[[content objectAtIndex:indexPath.section] objectForKey:@"rowValues"] 
                       objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];
cell.detailTextLabel.text=[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@ %@ %@", @"[e-mail]", @"|",@"123456777777777777777"] ;;

return cell;

}

The data generator can be modified to accomodate your model.
the email etc can be obtained from your model.In the snippet above it is hard coded.You could then easily wire in the search functionality.