iOS 8 ABPeoplePickerNavigationController Multiple Selection

Question

I recently upgraded my iPhone and Xcode from iOS 6 to iOS 8 and I experienced the issue of the "default" action being performed when a phone number or email address is selected from the ABPeoplePickerNavigationController (by "default" action I mean, selecting a phone number starts calling that number and selecting an email address opens up a new email to that address).

I implemented the new

peoplePickerNavigationController:didSelectPerson:property:identifier:

method of ABPeoplePickerNavigationControllerDelegate, which resolved the "default" action issue, but now I am unable to select more than one email address or phone number before the ABPeoplePickerNavigationController is dismissed, whereas I used to be able to pick any number of email addresses and phone numbers in iOS 6 by returning NO from the

peoplePickerNavigationController:shouldContinueAfterSelectingPerson:property:identifier:

method which no longer seems to get called. I have also tried setting the predicateForSelectionOfProperty property of the ABPeoplePickerNavigationController to nil,

[NSPredicate predicateWithValue: YES] 

and

[NSPredicate predicateWithValue: NO],

but the ABPeoplePickerNavigationController still dismisses as soon as a property is selected.

Any idea how to prevent the ABPeoplePickerNavigationController from dismissing when a property is selected?

Thanks,

Vatche

Answer 1

Moving the comment as an answer since it proved to be helpful :-)

I ended up subclassing ABPeoplePickerNavigationController and overriding dismissViewControllerAnimated to be able to decide whether to dismiss it or not, when a property is selected.