I am looking for a UIControl just like ABNewPersonViewController's address field input. I am building an app that will ask user for its mailing address. Mailing addresses have different components around the globe e.g. a US address will have a state and a zip code in it, whereas a PK address will contain province and postal code in it.
apple's ABNewPersonViewController changes its address field inputs according to the country selected. I am looking to integrate this functionality in my app. I have already tried looking for ABNewPersonViewController's customization but it is not customizable. Any help would be really appreciated.
Have you looked at Apple's internationalization guide? https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPInternational/Introduction/Introduction.html
This guide should cover what you need. App localization is well worth the effort.
Addresses can also be detected using NSDataDetecor (https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Foundation/Reference/NSDataDetector_Class/index.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40009936) if you need the flexibility you can use this class to check if a string is an address.
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Sorry, this may come across as a bit vague but how would go about and displaying a different logo of an organisation based on where the site is opened from. For example, the organisation would want their official South African logo to be displayed when the site is opened in South Africa, and another official logo when it is opened in Kenya or Ghana for example.
Would the site simply have to be hosted in more than one server...can't think of any other possible way?
To find country first you find Ipaddress
string Ipaddress= HttpContext.Current.Request.ServerVariables["REMOTE_ADDR"];
Using Ip address you can find location as follows
using (var wc = new WebClient())
{
string output = wc.DownloadString(String.Format("http://api.hostip.info/?ip={0}&position=true", ipaddress));
}
Output is in XML format and it will contain a countryName tag
I would have this as a comment .Since, I don't have enough reputations, I am posting as an answer.
This link would be useful to detect the country and change the logo based on the country in your logic.
Detect/estimate country of a http-request in ASP.NET
Adding the contents of the link, since the link may expire.
You can use one of available web services to match an incoming request to a country.
Otherwise you may decide to grab the MaxMind database file (GeoLite Country), read from this file in your application and perform a match. Thus you will be independent from a third-party service, only pulling regularly updates for the database file.
Also check out similar questions:
Geolocation web service recommendations
Know a good IP address Geolocation Service?
In a very short, in market so many vendors are there, who are tracking geolocation, One of them is google API.
https://www.googleapis.com/geolocation/v1/geolocate?key=YOUR_API_KEY
You can generate your own API_KEY.
Hope this post will helps you. :)
I need to offer users a way to type an address in an UITextField with an autocompletion functionality as user is introducing the text. I've been looking for the best way to implement this, but I'm still not sure: is it possible to get a list of street names for a certain city? Or should I being provided such information in another and custom way (service request, a file with that information...)?
My application is for iOS 7+
Thanks
You can do this by using Google Places autocomplete API.This api provide you addreess that you want in list.
For More info please refer this example that help you to how to use Google Places autocomplete with your application
https://maniacdev.com/2013/10/ios-completion-providing-search-with-autocompletion-and-map-marking-using-google-places
you can find sample code for the same on Github find Below link for this
https://github.com/chenyuan/SPGooglePlacesAutocomplete
Hope this may help you.
How can I get the international dialing prefix (e.g. +39) or country code (e.g. IT) of the contacts listed from ABAddressBookRequestAccessWithCompletion? When a user enters in someone's phone number they do not include the country code.
I know of three ways, but don't think either one is a good option. Is there a correct way to do this?
(1) Can use NSLocal to get country code, but as stated on many stack overflow postings this is not always correct as someone could set their phone as Italian but be in the US.
(2) Check the kABPersonAddressCountryCodeKey in the address book. But this isn't reliable as it requires someone to actually enter a persons address.
(3) Check the IP of the current country they are in and use that country code, but this isn't great as someone could be traveling abroad in the US, but their phone contacts are all Italian.
Thanks!
I need to add a very common Google functionality to an iPhone app I am developing. The idea is that the user is presented with a TextBox where he can write an address (i.e.: "Amsterdam av)". The thing is that I want to add some "help" for him, se when he writes a street name, the app will show him a list of partial matches, like google Maps does here:
sample http://www.timotteo.com.ar/google.png
I can´t find the exact class in the google API. It doesn't need to be as fast as google's own search, maybe the user can write "amst" and press a search button, to be presented with a list of partial matches. The API I'm looking for show return in some way a list with posibilities. All I could find for now where method that gives you the lat/long when you feed it with a specific address. Does somebody know what combination of methods/classes I should use? Maybe some example?
Txs in advance!
Perhaps you are looking for the autocomplete feature of the Places API:
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/places#places_autocomplete
This won't autocomplete for all addresses or streets, but rather for businesses, notable landmarks, etc.
If you want autocomplete for street addresses, I do not believe that is available through any documented APIs. That doesn't mean workarounds don't exist, but they may depend on more details about your use case. (For example, if you only care about a narrow geographic area, it may be possible to simply have a list of all the streets in your own database and handle the AJAX call yourself.)
Actully what I was looking for is this:
http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q=amsterdam%201543&output=xml&oe=utf8&sensor=true&hl=es&gl=ar
That URL returns and XML with all the autocomplete options. All I have to do is parse that XML and voila! There I have my list.
There are a lot of geocode services out there (like http://geo-autocomplete.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/demo/ui.demo.html for example) where user can write a location (or part of it) and it will be resolved to real existing location.
There is also a lot of info provided with the search result (like country ISO code, coordinates, etc..), but none of the services seem to provide country and city code.
What I mean is a code used to phone to certain are. For example Country code for Germany will be 49 and for city of Dusseldorf will be 211.
Is there any service, where I can get this info from the user input. Or is there any way to combine the two. For example I get city name from google geocode service and the try it on some city codes database. If yes, can anyone please provide me with links.
You can use for instance Yahoo's GeoPlanet. For more elaboration on services to solve your problem you might want to check out this answer on gis.stackexchange.com, which seems to cover the kind of service you need.