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Load the addressbook and select a person's email in Xamarin
/* A simple snippet to Open the Address book in iOS and select a person's email address and
add it to the textfield (_addressesTextView)
PLATFORM: XAMARIN iOS
*/
ABPeoplePickerNavigationController _contacts;
partial void AddEmail (NSObject sender)
{
if (_contacts == null)
_contacts = new ABPeoplePickerNavigationController ();
_contacts.ModalPresentationStyle = UIModalPresentationStyle.FormSheet;
PickerDelegate pickerDeleg = new PickerDelegate();
pickerDeleg.emailSelected += (email) => {
if (_addressesTextView.Text.Length > 0)
_addressesTextView.Text = _addressesTextView.Text + "," + email;
else
_addressesTextView.Text = email;
};
_contacts.Delegate = pickerDeleg;
this.PresentViewController(_contacts,true,null);
}
//People Picker Delegate
public class PickerDelegate:ABPeoplePickerNavigationControllerDelegate
{
public delegate void EmailSelectedDelegate(string email);
public event EmailSelectedDelegate emailSelected;
public override bool ShouldContinue (ABPeoplePickerNavigationController peoplePicker, IntPtr selectedPerson, int propertyId, int identifier)
{
if (propertyId == 4) { //kABPersonEmailProperty
//this is a bug in XAMARIN, check this: https://bugzilla.xamarin.com/show_bug.cgi?id=16072
ABPerson person = Runtime.GetINativeObject<ABPerson> (selectedPerson,false);
var emails = person.GetEmails();
int index = emails.GetIndexForIdentifier(identifier);
var values = emails.GetValues();
emailSelected(values[index]);
peoplePicker.DismissViewController(true,null);
}
return false;
}
public override void Cancelled (ABPeoplePickerNavigationController peoplePicker)
{
peoplePicker.DismissViewController(true,null);
}
}
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