How to get iPhone contacts in iPhone application

Question

I want to get all the iPhone contacts in my iphone application.Is it possible?If so how?Anybody please help me.

Answer 1

Apple has a programming guide for the address book framework:

Address Book Programming Guide for iOS

Reference:

• http://www.iphonedevsdk.com/forum/iphone-sdk-development/61920-losing-imagedata-contact-when-adding-array.html

• ABAddressBook store values in NSDictionary

• http://iappdevs.blog.co.in/tag/how-to-get-contact-details-from-iphone-address-book-to-iphone-sdk/

• iPhone Address Book: How to get a list of only contacts with phone numbers?

• http://appleresearch.blogspot.com/2008/03/how-to-get-contacts-with-iphone-sdk.html

• http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=449981