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

Objective-c

Installation

Add APAddressBook pod to Podfile

pod 'APAddressBook'

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
    }
}];

Callback block will be run on main queue! If you need to run callback block on custom queue use loadContactsOnQueue:completion: method

Select contact fields bit-mask

Available fields:

• APContactFieldFirstName - contact first name
• APContactFieldMiddleName - contact middle name
• APContactFieldLastName - contact last name
• APContactFieldCompany - contact company (organization)
• APContactFieldPhones - contact phones array
• APContactFieldEmails - contact emails array
• APContactFieldPhoto - contact photo
• APContactFieldThumbnail - contact thumbnail
• APContactFieldCreationDate - contact creation date
• APContactFieldModificationDate - contact modification date
• APContactFieldPhonesWithLabels - contact phones with labels
• APContactFieldCompositeName - the concatenated value of prefix, suffix, organization, first name, and last name
• APContactFieldAddresses - array of user addresses
• APContactFieldRecordID - ID of record in iOS address book
• APContactFieldSocialProfiles - array of social profiles
• APContactFieldDefault - contact first name, last name and phones array
• APContactFieldAll - all contact fields described above

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;
}

Observe address book external changes

// start observing
[addressBook startObserveChangesWithCallback:^
{
    NSLog(@"Address book changed!");
}];
// stop observing
[addressBook stopObserveChanges];

Swift

Installation

pod 'APAddressBook/Swift'

Import APAddressBook-Bridging.h to application's objective-c bridging file.

#import "APAddressBook-Bridging.h"

Example

See exmaple application in Example/Swift directory.

self.addressBook.loadContacts(
    { (contacts: [AnyObject]!, error: NSError!) in
        if contacts {
            // do something with contacts
        }
        else if error {
            // show error
        }
    })

History

Version 0.1.2

• Added contact social profile

Thanks to David Muzi for pull request

Version 0.1.1

• Added Swift podspec with bridging header
• Added example application in Swift
• Added contact's middle name

Thanks to Rubén González for pull request

Version 0.1.0

• Refactored address book external changes observing

Version 0.0.10

• Fixed intermittent crashing in requestAccessWithCompletion handler

Thanks to Daniel Ericsson for pull request.

Version 0.0.9

• Added observing of address book external changes

Made by Serg Krivoblotsky

Version 0.0.8

• Added contact record creation date
• Added contact record modification date

Thanks to Natasha Murashev for pull request.

Version 0.0.7

• Added contact's concatenated name

Thanks to Peter Robinett for pull request.

• Added contact's addresses
• Added contact's ID in iOS AddressBook

Thanks to Cory Alder for pull request.

Version 0.0.6

• Added loading contacts on custom dispatch queue

Thanks to Marcin Krzyzanowski for pull request.

Version 0.0.5

• Fixed bad access of phone label parsing.
• Fixed memory leak of peoples array.

Thanks to dong-seta for found bug.

Version 0.0.4

• Added retrieving phone labels.

Thanks to John Hobbs for pull request.

Version 0.0.3

• Added loading contact thumbnail.

Thanks to Carlos Fonseca for pull request.

Version 0.0.2

• Fixed potential crash on fetching contacts using non-property APAddressBook object.

Thanks to Evgen Bakumenko for pull request.

Version 0.0.1

• First release.

Contributor's guide

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