Get photos from Address book in iphone Application

Question

I want to get contact name,photos from Addressbook in my iphone application. I am able to get contacts and store in to array.but now know how also get contacts photos.the code i am using is as follows.

ABAddressBookRef ab=ABAddressBookCreate();
NSArray *arrTemp=(NSArray *)ABAddressBookCopyArrayOfAllPeople(ab);  

arrContact=[[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
for (int i=0;i<[arrTemp count];i++) 
{
    NSMutableDictionary *dicContact=[[NSMutableDictionary alloc] init];
    NSString *str=(NSString *) ABRecordCopyValue([arrTemp objectAtIndex:i], kABPersonFirstNameProperty);
    @try 
    {
        [dicContact setObject:str forKey:@"name"];
    }
    @catch (NSException * e) {
        [dicContact release];
        continue;
    }
    [arrContact addObject:dicContact];
    NSLog(@"mohit inside the loop");
    [dicContact release];
}

I want to to get both contacts photo and name in that array(arrContacts) then display them in table. Please give me guideline. Thanks

Answer 1

In ARC mode

 NSData  *imgData = (__bridge_transfer NSData *) ABPersonCopyImageDataWithFormat(record, kABPersonImageFormatThumbnail);

where record is the object of class

ABRecordRef

Hope this helps

Answer 2

In iOS 4+ you can get the image with :

ABPersonCopyImageDataWithFormat(person, kABPersonImageFormatOriginalSize);

or

ABPersonCopyImageData(person);