get Image from Contact stored in AddressBook [iPhone]

by Adeem Basraa on April 2, 2009 in AddressBook, iPhone with 6 Comments Tweet

Using this code you can retrieve the pictures of contact stored in your AddressBook!

ABAddressBookRef addressBook = ABAddressBookCreate();



NSMutableArray *people = [[[(NSArray*) ABAddressBookCopyArrayOfAllPeople(addressBook) autorelease] mutableCopy] autorelease];

[people sortUsingFunction:(int (*)(id, id, void *) ) ABPersonComparePeopleByName context:(void*)ABPersonGetSortOrdering()];

UIImage* image;
for (int i = 0; i < [people count]; i++)
{
    ABRecordRef person = [people objectAtIndex:i];

    if(ABPersonHasImageData(person)){
        image = [UIImage imageWithData:(NSData *)ABPersonCopyImageData(person)];
    }else{
        image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"contact_image.gif"];
    }
}

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Adeem Basraa

My name is Adeem M Basraa. I am a software engineer from Lahore, PK. I’ve been involved in software development for nearly 4 years, with the last 1 year focused on application development for mobile devices (iPhone & Android).

Tagged: AddressBook Contacts

6 Comments on "get Image from Contact stored in AddressBook [iPhone]"

1. Asif says:

   April 13, 2009 at 2:27 AM

   How can we display address book images in our application
2. admin says:

   April 14, 2009 at 10:27 PM

   yep you can do that. the code i already written get all the images from contact list , you just need to stored those images in some mutable array and used it anywhere you likes
3. Amit says:

   June 11, 2009 at 5:41 AM

   I have more than 2k contacts to read form addressbook, but the reading code crashes ( low memory) after reading 2k records. Application have no leak in contacts reading code, i checked with leak application.
4. Sanjay Samani says:

   June 12, 2009 at 5:24 AM

   Amit,

   the leak is in the line:
   image = [UIImage imageWithData:(NSData *)ABPersonCopyImageData(person)];

   which instead should read something like:

   CFDataRef imageData = ABPersonCopyImageData(person)];
image = [UIImage imageWithData:(NSData *)imageData];
CFRelease(imageData);

5. Sasha says:

   March 24, 2011 at 8:41 AM

   Hey,
   Where/how exactly do we have to execute this code ?

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