ABNewPersonViewController to save contact locally

Question

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.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 11 '14 at 00:11

- (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.

ABNewPersonViewController to save contact locally

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