Re: [Linphone-developers] importing contacts

[Ruchi Agrawal]

Hi,

If you are using ABAddressBook for fetching phone contacts you can use method “ABAddressBookCopyArrayOfAllPeople”

then sort all the contacts with predefined predicate rules and save them in an array, 

here is code for your detail understanding 

 CFArrayRef peopleRefs = ABAddressBookCopyArrayOfAllPeople(addressBook);

    CFMutableArrayRef mutablePeopleRefs = CFArrayCreateMutableCopy(kCFAllocatorDefault, CFArrayGetCount(peopleRefs), peopleRefs);

    

    CFArraySortValues(mutablePeopleRefs, CFRangeMake(0, CFArrayGetCount(mutablePeopleRefs)), (CFComparatorFunction) ABPersonComparePeopleByName, (void*) (long) kABPersonSortByFirstName);

    sortedAddressBook = (__bridge NSMutableArray *)(mutablePeopleRefs);

    

    //make a 27key values array including alphabatic and #.

    //make 27 sections on basis of thes keys

    //give sectionTitle from this array.

    //put values in corrosponding sections from sortedContacts.

    

    indexArray =[[NSArray alloc] initWithObjects:@"A",@"B",@"C",@"D",@"E",@"F",@"G",@"H",@"I",@"J",@"K",@"L",@"M",@"N",@"O",@"P",@"Q",@"R",@"S",@"T",@"U",@"V",@"W",@"X",@"Y",@"Z",@"#",nil];

    keyContactsDictonary = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc]init];

    for (int i = 0; i<[indexArray count]; i++) {

        NSString *sectionKey = [indexArray objectAtIndex:i];

        NSPredicate *predicate = [NSPredicate predicateWithBlock:^BOOL(id record, NSDictionary *b)

                                  {

                                      ABRecordRef recordRef = (__bridge ABRecordRef)record;

                                      NSString *name=(NSString *)CFBridgingRelease(ABRecordCopyCompositeName(recordRef));

                                      if ([name hasPrefix:sectionKey] || [name hasPrefix:[sectionKey lowercaseString]]) {

                                          return YES;

                                      }

                                      return NO;

                                  }];

        NSArray *tempArray = [sortedAddressBook filteredArrayUsingPredicate:predicate];

        [keyContactsDictonary setValue:tempArray forKey:sectionKey];

Thanks & Regards

Ruchi Agrawal

On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 2:10 AM, Стоян Ангелов <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi,

I've just installed Linphone as my softphone. I've got quite a large contacts list and importing them one by one would take too much time. Is there a way to import all of them at once? Thanks!

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