Question

I have a task to develop the application related to address and access the birthdate from it. And if the user has to exists in the address then i can enter it manually from my application to address book.

I have to develop the application related to address book. From address book i have to get name,phone no,email, and birthday. so i can easily get it on my application. But for get i have set all thing from address book. But i also have to give facility to add the contact detail as above given field. and i can not find easily that how to add birthday in address book i have search a lot but i cant found it,

So,please help me and provide some sample code for it.

Answer 1

int recordId=123 //recordId in address book for record we want to update
//save birthday to address book
ABAddressBookRef addressBook = ABAddressBookCreate();

ABRecordRef person = ABAddressBookGetPersonWithRecordID (addressBook,recordId);
CFErrorRef error = NULL; 

NSDateFormatter* formatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[formatter setDateFormat:@"dd.MM.yyyy"];
//don't set year in address book (yyyy=1604)
NSDate *date = [formatter dateFromString:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@.1604",@"29.03"]];
[formatter release];

ABRecordSetValue(person, kABPersonBirthdayProperty,(CFDateRef)date, &error); 
ABAddressBookSave (addressBook,&error);
CFRelease(addressBook);

Don’t forget to import AddressBook/AddressBook.h file and add AddressBook.framework.