How to detect souce type(ex:gmail,yahoo or exchange) in addressbook?

Asked Sep 15 '14 at 14:12

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I meet a problem that I can't detect the source type (ex:gmail ,yahoo or exchange account) in addressbook.

I use method ABAddressBookCopyArrayOfAllSources to get all the sources.

CFArrayRef allSources = ABAddressBookCopyArrayOfAllSources(book);
for (CFIndex i = 0; i < CFArrayGetCount(allSources); i++) {
    ABRecordRef source = (ABRecordRef)CFArrayGetValueAtIndex(allSources, i);
    NSString *sourceTypeName = (NSString *)((CFStringRef)ABRecordCopyValue(source, kABSourceNameProperty));
    NSLog(@"%@", sourceTypeName);
}

But the Gmail account source name is 'Address Book' (It's strange to me) iCloud account source name is 'Card' (also strange). the source type is cardav

I searched several similar questions:

1.AddressBook: Differentiating sources of type kABSourceTypeExchangeGAL

2.ABAddressBook ABSource and ABSourceType

the answers are you can't detect the account .

However, I downloaded a app named 'Cobook'. It can show my gmail account name.I'm very curious about how the app can do that.I did not found there is some api can get this info.

Thanks advance.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:02

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asked Sep 15 '14 at 14:12

frank

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ABRecordCopyValue(source, kABStringPropertyType)); this method can get a path have gmail address.But I think it is a trick.The api should not be used in this way. – frank Sep 17 '14 at 10:55
Hello, did you find a way to do this? – Vervatovskis Feb 04 '15 at 13:58
not yet. I think 'Cobook' may use some trick method. may used jailbreak device. – frank Feb 06 '15 at 09:55

How to detect souce type(ex:gmail,yahoo or exchange) in addressbook?

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