Create an empty ABAddressBook in iPhone SDK?

Question

Can I create an ABAddressBook which does not read data from my address book. i.e. it's empty to start with so that I can put in my own contacts fetched from the internet.

As you may know the function

ABAddressBookRef ab = ABAddressBookCreate(); 

gives me data from the built in addressbook. This is not what I want but if you know a solution to my problem please let me know.

Answer 1

I don't think it is possible to have an empty instance of ABAddressBook. The documentation is only about getting an ABAddressBook filled with the address book of the iPhone.