I have looked all over SO and elsewhere and I suppose what I am trying to do is not possible. I am wondering if its possible to use ABNewPersonViewController
to create a person and save it locally (i.e. not in the address book but as a file). Or if anyone knows of an open source library to accomplish that.
Currently I am writing it a similar class from scratch to populate a person object that I have also manually created...but I am wondering if I am recreating the wheel.
- (void)newPersonViewController:(ABNewPersonViewController *)newPersonView didCompleteWithNewPerson:(ABRecordRef)person;
{
if (person) {
ABAddressBookRef addressBookRef = ABAddressBookCreateWithOptions(NULL, nil);
BOOL result = ABAddressBookRemoveRecord (addressBookRef,person,NULL);
if (result) {
BOOL save = ABAddressBookSave(addressBookRef, NULL);
if (save) {
NSLog(@"remove successfully");
}
}
}
[self.navigationController popViewControllerAnimated:YES];
}
And extract information from person and save them as NSStrings,make a NSDictionary, then you are able to save the dictionary to a file as it is a property-list object.