Contact Fetching Issue

Question

We are using CNContactStore to fetch contacts from iphone, but we are getting all contacts from my iphone which is giving all synched contacts like facebook and other gmail contacts too, but i need to fetch only the contacts stored in iphone. how to do that,please help me to get out of this.

Answer 1

import these

#import <AddressBook/AddressBook.h>
#import <AddressBookUI/AddressBookUI.h>


- (void) fetchContactsFromDevice {

//1
CFErrorRef error = NULL;
ABAddressBookRef addressBook = ABAddressBookCreateWithOptions(NULL, &error);

if (addressBook != nil) {

    ABAddressBookRequestAccessWithCompletion( addressBook, ^(bool granted, CFErrorRef error) {

        if (error) {
            NSLog(@"ABAddressBookRequestAccessWithCompletion error: %@", CFBridgingRelease(error));
        }

        if (granted) {
            // if they gave you permission, then just carry on

            [self listPeopleInAddressBook:addressBook];
        } else {
            // however, if they didn't give you permission, handle it gracefully, for example...

            dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
                // BTW, this is not on the main thread, so dispatch UI updates back to the main queue

                [[[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:nil message:@"" delegate:nil cancelButtonTitle:@"OK" otherButtonTitles:nil] show];
            });
        }

        CFRelease(addressBook);

    });

} else { 

    NSLog(@"Error reading Address Book : %@", error);
}

}

This method will help you in fetching only addressBook numbers

and then use it to plot

- (void)listPeopleInAddressBook:(ABAddressBookRef)addressBook {

NSArray *allPeople = CFBridgingRelease(ABAddressBookCopyArrayOfAllPeople(addressBook));
NSInteger numberOfPeople = [allPeople count];

for (NSInteger i = 0; i < numberOfPeople; i++) {
    ABRecordRef person = (__bridge ABRecordRef)allPeople[i];

    NSMutableDictionary * user = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc] init];

    NSString *firstName = CFBridgingRelease(ABRecordCopyValue(person, kABPersonFirstNameProperty));
    NSString *lastName  = CFBridgingRelease(ABRecordCopyValue(person, kABPersonLastNameProperty));

    [user setObject:firstName forKey:@"firstname"];
    [user setObject:lastName forKey:@"lastname"];


    ABMultiValueRef phoneNumbers = ABRecordCopyValue(person, kABPersonPhoneProperty);

    CFIndex numberOfPhoneNumbers = ABMultiValueGetCount(phoneNumbers);
    for (CFIndex i = 0; i < numberOfPhoneNumbers; i++) {
        NSString *phoneNumber = CFBridgingRelease(ABMultiValueCopyValueAtIndex(phoneNumbers, i));

        [user setObject:phoneNumber forKey:@"phoneNumbers"];
    }

    CFRelease(phoneNumbers);

    [self.contactDataArray addObject:user];
}

[yourtable reloadData];

}

Hope this will help