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Adding and Saving New Contact to AddressBook

I have a problem that I can't quite seem to solve even though I've used resources I've found on Google and on here. I've only started being taught Swift and how to use Xcode about a month ago, hence, I'm very new, and the problem I have is probably very simple to others.

What I'm trying to do is add and save a new contact to the addressbook. I can get from the app to the Contacts app no problem, it's just I can't save the new contact information.

import AddressBookUI
import AddressBook

class ViewController: UIViewController {

    @IBOutlet weak var contactLink: UIButton!

    @IBAction func contactLink(sender: AnyObject) {
        var viewController: ABNewPersonViewController = ABNewPersonViewController()
        self.presentViewController(viewController, animated: true, completion: nil)
    }
}

Here's the code I'm using that relates to my problem. Any assistance will be appreciated.

Solution

  • Nowadays, you'd use ContactsUI framework. So, in Swift 3, you could do:

    import ContactsUI

class ViewController: UIViewController, CNContactViewControllerDelegate {

    @IBAction func contactLink(_ sender: AnyObject) {
        let controller = CNContactViewController(forNewContact: nil)
        controller.delegate = self
        let navigationController = UINavigationController(rootViewController: controller)
        self.present(navigationController, animated: true)
    }

    func contactViewController(_ viewController: CNContactViewController, didCompleteWith contact: CNContact?) {
        viewController.navigationController?.dismiss(animated: true)
    }

}

    My original answer, using AddressBookUI framework in Swift 2 is below.

    The Swift code is:

    import AddressBookUI

class ViewController: UIViewController, ABNewPersonViewControllerDelegate {

    @IBAction func contactLink(sender: AnyObject) {
        let controller = ABNewPersonViewController()
        controller.newPersonViewDelegate = self
        let navigationController = UINavigationController(rootViewController: controller)
        self.presentViewController(navigationController, animated: true, completion: nil)
    }

    func newPersonViewController(newPersonView: ABNewPersonViewController!, didCompleteWithNewPerson person: ABRecord!) {
        newPersonView.navigationController?.dismissViewControllerAnimated(true, completion: nil);
    }
}

    See the Prompting the User to Create a New Person Record section of the Address Book Programming Guide: User Interaction: Prompting for and Displaying Data.