Programmatically Creating Contacts
What if you want to programmatically create a new contact instead of using the built-in graphical interface? Think about a contact-sharing app again. You don’t want to have to put the user through an interface when you can have the contact information entered programmatically.
In the sample project, uncomment line 66 ([self programmaticallyCreatePerson];) of the RootViewController.m and run it; you will notice that a new person appears in the contact list. The first step you will need to take in creating a new person is to generate a new empty ABRecordRef. You do this with the ABPersonCreate() method. You will also want to create a new NULL pointed CFErrorRef.
ABRecordRef newPersonRecord ...
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