APAddressBook is a wrapper on AddressBook.framework that gives easy access to native address book without pain in a head.

Features

• Load contacts from iOS address book asynchronously
• Decide what contact data fields you need to load (for example, only first name and phone number)
• Filter contacts to get only necessary records (for example, you need only contacts with email)
• Sort contacts with array of any NSSortDescriptor

Installation

Add APAddressBook pod to Podfile

Using

Load contacts

APAddressBook *addressBook = [[APAddressBook alloc] init];
// don't forget to show some activity
[addressBook loadContacts:^(NSArray *contacts, NSError *error)
{
    // hide activity
    if (!error)
    {
        // do something with contacts array
    }
    else
    {
        // show error
    }
}];

Note

Callback block will be run in main thread!

Select contact fields bit-mask

Available fields:

• APContactFieldFirstName - contact first name
• APContactFieldLastName - contact last name
• APContactFieldCompany - contact company (organisation)
• APContactFieldPhones - contact phones array
• APContactFieldEmails - contact emails array
• APContactFieldPhoto - contact photo
• APContactFieldThumbnail - contact thumbnail
• APContactFieldDefault - contact first name, last name and phones array
• APContactFieldAll - all contact fields described above

Note

You should use APContactFieldPhoto very carefully, because it takes a lot of memory and may crash the application. Using APContactFieldThumbnail is much safer.

Example of loading contact with first name and photo:

APAddressBook *addressBook = [[APAddressBook alloc] init];
addressBook.fieldsMask = APContactFieldFirstName | APContactFieldPhoto;

Filter contacts

The most common use of this option is to filter contacts without phone number. Example:

addressBook.filterBlock = ^BOOL(APContact *contact)
{
    return contact.phones.count > 0;
};

Sort contacts

APAddressBook returns unsorted contacts. So, most of users would like to sort contacts by first name and last name.

addressBook.sortDescriptors = @[
    [NSSortDescriptor sortDescriptorWithKey:@"firstName" ascending:YES],
    [NSSortDescriptor sortDescriptorWithKey:@"lastName" ascending:YES]
];

Check address book access

switch([APAddressBook access])
{
    case APAddressBookAccessUnknown:
        // Application didn't request address book access yet
        break;

    case APAddressBookAccessGranted:
        // Access granted
        break;

    case APAddressBookAccessDenied:
        // Access denied or restricted by privacy settings
        break;
}

If you have improvements or concerns, feel free to post an issue and write details.

Contacts

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Versions

Version 0.0.3

• Added loading contact thumbnail. Thanks to Carlos Fonseca.

Version 0.0.2

• Fixed potential crash on fetching contacts using non-property APAddressBook object. Thanks to Evgen Bakumenko.

Version 0.0.1

• First release.