Get iPhone address book contacts in iphone application

Question

I have an iphone application.Within which I want to get all the iphone address book contacts in an array.

Is that possible?

Answer 1

Yes. ABAddressBook is what you want.

Answer 2

Looks like it:

ABAddressBookRef addressBook = ABAddressBookCreate();
CFArrayRef allPeople = ABAddressBookCopyArrayOfAllPeople(addressBook);
CFIndex nPeople = ABAddressBookGetPersonCount(addressBook);

for( int i = 0 ; i < nPeople ; i++ ) {
  ABRecordRef ref = CFArrayGetValueAtIndex(allPeople, i );
  NSLog(@"inside loop");
}