iPhone Address book: How to select multiple contacts ?

Question

I would like to execute the same operation on multiple contact of the Address Book. Is there an API available to allow multiple contacts selection from the Address Book ?

If it is not possible natively with iPhone SDK, is there any other alternative / library doing this simple thing ?

Answer 1

You'll almost certainly have to do this yourself. However, there are functions like ABAddressBookCopyArrayOfAllPeople() which will get you a list of everyone in the address book. From there it'd just be a matter of throwing that list into a tableview and providing the multiple-select capability.