ABAddressBook store values in NSDictionary

Question

I have an app that displays ABAddressBook contacts in a UITableView. Currently I\'m reading the contacts into an NSDictionary, however

Answer 1

A different way using ARC:

ABAddressBookRef addressBook = ABAddressBookCreate();
CFArrayRef addressBookData = ABAddressBookCopyArrayOfAllPeople(addressBook);

CFIndex count = CFArrayGetCount(addressBookData);

NSMutableArray *contactsArray = [NSMutableArray new];

for (CFIndex idx = 0; idx < count; idx++) {
    ABRecordRef person = CFArrayGetValueAtIndex(addressBookData, idx);

    NSString *firstName = (__bridge_transfer NSString *)ABRecordCopyValue(person, kABPersonFirstNameProperty);

    if (firstName) {
        NSDictionary *dict = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObject:firstName ForKey:@"name"];
        [contactsArray addObject:dict];
    }

}
CFRelease(addressBook);
CFRelease(addressBookData);