One of the most well-known and most used feature of iPhone devices to all users, developers or not, is the Address Book. For those who use a lot the device as a phone (rather than a mobile mini computer), all important and vital information they need exist in their contacts. Till today, many applications have been developed, and even more can be built that make use the device’s address book data.
Apple makes developers’ life easy, as it provides frameworks that allow to access the address book and deal with its records. Knowing how to work with address book and how to perform some basic tasks (at least), is a knowledge necessary to all developers, as either sooner or later they’ll come in need of integrating address book info into their applications.
Before we proceed to take a tour on the most important aspects of the address book framework through a demo application, it would be a nice idea to make an introductory discussion first that will make easier to everyone to comprehend what comes next in this tutorial. So, keep reading and surely you’ll find some pretty interesting stuff as food for thinking and study.