{"id":192,"date":"2011-04-05T10:24:07","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T08:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smartersoftware.de\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/duplicates-in-address-book-some-progress-on-my-next-iphone-app\/"},"modified":"2011-04-05T10:24:07","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T08:24:07","slug":"duplicates-in-address-book-some-progress-on-my-next-iphone-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.smartersoftware.de\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/duplicates-in-address-book-some-progress-on-my-next-iphone-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Duplicates in Address Book: Some Progress on my next iPhone App"},"content":{"rendered":"

After trying out a few things during my last train rides to my consulting engagement, my next iPhone app is slowly taking shape.<\/p>\n

Development progress<\/h2>\n

Here is a very rough, \u201cin work\u201d screenshot of what I have for now (using some test data):<\/p>\n

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Each cell in the TableView represents the contacts in the address book. The number in braces shows how \u201csimilar\u201d another contact record is. (The number shown is for the \u201cclosest\u201d record.) I want to make things a bit easier to spot by coloring the cells (e.g. red = 100% match, yellow between 90 and 100% match). I\u2019ll also add some way to filter the displayed records (i.e. display only records above a certain threshold).<\/p>\n

In the detail view, I want to display the \u201cclosest\u201d records for one address and provide some way to look at the details of the involved contacts. (As this might require quite some back and forth between the different contact records, an iPad with additional screen estate may be a good idea here.) The detail view should also have some functionality to \u201cremove\u201d unwanted records (duplicates) or \u201cmerge\u201d two records (collect all different phone numbers, email addresses etc. into one contact record and remove the other one).<\/p>\n

Obviously, there is still a lot of work to do, but I\u2019m making some progress. While I\u2019m still looking for a good name, I already have an icon for the app: \"colored_background_clear_glass_512\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Emerging Tiers<\/h2>\n

I\u2019m also getting a clearer picture of which different modules I can offer:<\/p>\n