Is there a way way to use the Address book from an app?

Question

Is it possible to pop the address book with users contacts in an app?

I want to let the user dial to his contacts from my app.

I wanted to do this with URL SCHEME CALL but I don't want a specific contact, I want the user to choose who to dial to.

Answer 1

You can use ABPeoplePickerNavigationController class to allow user to choose a contact from his address book. When contact is selected the peoplePickerNavigationController:shouldContinueAfterSelectingPerson: method in picker's delegate is called (see ABPeoplePickerNavigationControllerDelegate protocol reference for more methods available) and you can dial selected contact in that method as you wanted.