How to sort ABAddressBook contact through First Name

Question

I have a sort function that sorts the Address book by Last Name, I need to modify this code so that it will sort by first Name. Where do I need to make change in this code. I know its a simple change but I am unable to figure it out. This is the code that sorts the contacts list by Last Name

ABAddressBookRef addressBook = ABAddressBookCreate();
CFArrayRef people = ABAddressBookCopyArrayOfAllPeople(addressBook);
CFMutableArrayRef peopleMutable = CFArrayCreateMutableCopy
                                       (
                                          kCFAllocatorDefault,
                                          CFArrayGetCount(people),
                                          people
                                       );


CFArraySortValues
       (
        peopleMutable,
        CFRangeMake(0, CFArrayGetCount(peopleMutable)),
        (CFComparatorFunction) ABPersonComparePeopleByName,
        (void*) ABPersonGetSortOrdering()
       );

Rather

Answer 1

Implement your sort method by bellow put kABPersonSortByFirstName instead of (void*) ABPersonGetSortOrdering():-

CFArraySortValues(peopleMutable,
                  CFRangeMake(0, CFArrayGetCount(peopleMutable)),
                  (CFComparatorFunction) ABPersonComparePeopleByName,
                  kABPersonSortByFirstName);

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Wanderlust

Thanks that seems to work, I wonder why didnt I find that page when I searched for it in stack overflow before and also I did tried that with kABPersonSortByLastName and it showed error so I didnt bother trying the other one:P – Rather

Answer 2

Try this

 ABRecordRef source = ABAddressBookCopyDefaultSource(addressBook);
    addressBookArray = (__bridge_transfer NSArray *)ABAddressBookCopyArrayOfAllPeopleInSourceWithSortOrdering(addressBook, source, kABPersonSortByLastName);

hope it helps you.

Durban

Answer 3

you can use this code to sort them and if you want to work with the same code check Nitin's answer:-

        ABRecordRef person = (__bridge ABRecordRef)record;

        NSString *firstName = (__bridge_transfer NSString *)ABRecordCopyValue(person, kABPersonFirstNameProperty);

        if ( [beginsPredicate evaluateWithObject:firstName] )
        {
            ABRecordID abRecordID = ABRecordGetRecordID(person);

            [self.filteredPeople addObject:[NSNumber numberWithInt:abRecordID]];
        }

Hope it will work for you.

Broadbent

Answer 4

This worked for me:

 //Sorting

 ABAddressBookRef addressBook = ABAddressBookCreateWithOptions(NULL, error);
            ABRecordRef source = ABAddressBookCopyDefaultSource(addressBook);
            NSArray *allPeople = (__bridge NSArray *)ABAddressBookCopyArrayOfAllPeopleInSourceWithSortOrdering(addressBook, source, kABPersonSortByFirstName);

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