I have a menu that let's a user select a country. Exactly like that in the contacts.app country menu within the address field.
Does anyone know a simple way of getting a list of countries? I have used NSLocale to generate an array of countries but it's only the country codes unfortunately and not the human readable equivalent. I don't want 'GB' I want Great Britain.
Thanks chuck.
If anyone is interested or wanted to find the same solution here is my code for a sorted array of countries.
Objective-C:
NSLocale *locale = [NSLocale currentLocale];
NSArray *countryArray = [NSLocale ISOCountryCodes];
NSMutableArray *sortedCountryArray = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
for (NSString *countryCode in countryArray) {
NSString *displayNameString = [locale displayNameForKey:NSLocaleCountryCode value:countryCode];
[sortedCountryArray addObject:displayNameString];
}
[sortedCountryArray sortUsingSelector:@selector(localizedCompare:)];
Swift:
let locale = NSLocale.currentLocale()
let countryArray = NSLocale.ISOCountryCodes()
var unsortedCountryArray:[String] = []
for countryCode in countryArray {
let displayNameString = locale.displayNameForKey(NSLocaleCountryCode, value: countryCode)
if displayNameString != nil {
unsortedCountryArray.append(displayNameString!)
}
}
let sortedCountryArray = sorted(unsortedCountryArray, <)
Swift 3
let locale = NSLocale.current
let unsortedCountries = NSLocale.isoCountryCodes.map { locale.localizedString(forRegionCode: $0)! }
let sortedCountries = unsortedCountries.sorted()
Use [[NSLocale currentLocale] displayNameForKey:NSLocaleCountryCode value:countryCode] (where countryCode is an item in your list of country codes) to get the country's name in the user's current locale.
Swift 3
let locale = Locale.current
let countries = Locale.isoRegionCodes.map {
locale.localizedString(forRegionCode: $0)!
}.sorted()