Get a list of all contacts on iOS

Question

Hey
I want to get a list of all contacts of an iPhone.
I checked "Address Book" reference, I may missed something but I didn't see it provides a method to get a list of contacts.

Answer 1

Perhaps ABPerson function ABAddressBookCopyArrayOfAllPeople might do?

Example:

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

for ( int i = 0; i < nPeople; i++ )
{
    ABRecordRef ref = CFArrayGetValueAtIndex( allPeople, i );
    ...
}

Answer 2

Make sure you have the proper import

#import <AddressBook/AddressBook.h>

Then you can get a CFArray object with all contacts using

CFArrayRef ABAddressBookCopyArrayOfAllPeople (ABAddressBookRef addressBook);