Question

I’ve spent some time searching for this answer on SO, but couldn’t find it, so here goes:

I’m starting with an ABPeoplePickerNavigationController, and when a user taps a person, they’ll be taken to an ABPersonViewController where they’ll be able to select phone numbers and email addresses. After they’re finished with the ABPersonViewController, they’ll be taken back to the ABPeoplePickerNavigationController. Pretty simple stuff.

What I want is to add a detailLabel to the table cell they selected in ABPeoplePickerNavigationController after they chose a phone number or an email address. Something like “Email and phone number chosen” or “Phone number chosen”.

Apple’s documentation says:

 You should not need to subclass these controllers; the expected way to modify their behavior is by your implementation of their delegate.

The delegate methods provided won’t handle this. Is there any way to accomplish this without subclassing myself? And, if I do have to subclass ABPeoplePickerNavigationController, which method would I override to update the detailLabel?

Thanks!

Answer 1

This bit of code seems to work for me, it grabs the cell when the user selects a person and adds a check mark. I’m guessing you can tweak the cell in other ways at this point as well.

- (BOOL)peoplePickerNavigationController:(ABPeoplePickerNavigationController *)peoplePicker shouldContinueAfterSelectingPerson:(ABRecordRef)person{
UIView *view = peoplePicker.topViewController.view;
UITableView *tableView = nil;
for(UIView *uv in view.subviews)
{
    if([uv isKindOfClass:[UITableView class]])
    {
        tableView = (UITableView*)uv;
        break;
    }
}
if(tableView != nil)
{
    UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:[tableView indexPathForSelectedRow]];
    if(cell.accessoryType == UITableViewCellAccessoryNone){
        cell.accessoryType = UITableViewCellAccessoryCheckmark;
    }
    else{
        cell.accessoryType = UITableViewCellAccessoryNone;
    }        
    [cell setSelected:NO animated:YES];
}
return NO;
}