Contacts view iphone SDK

Question

When we click on a specific contact in the contacts app in the iphone SDk, we see the image of the person, the name and the tableview with details of the person. I would like to know how to generate that view exactly ? . I tried having a table view slightly below and tried to add a view with the image and the name above the table view. But i was not able to get the gray stripe background image.

Is there a better way to do what i want ?

Answer 1

I assume this is what you're trying to do:

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That top Cell is a custom UITableViewCell, with a clear background. There are a lot of ways to subclass a UITableViewCell . You would just position the UIImageView so that it's on the left side of the cell and then create UILabels for the Name and Company.

Answer 2

You can use the AddressBookUI framework. You get this view for free in there, it will add the contact to the users main contacts but there is also a delegate method that returns the person just added back into your application I believe.