Question: Currenty I want to load iphone's addressbook db into my iphone app db..i mean i want to dump addressbook data into my app db

Is it possible? if so give me a link or references to do so

Thanks for any help

Cant i export AddressBook.sqlitedb to another sqlite db for my iphone app?

I mean, do i need to iterate over the loop? 

Isn't possible to load the addressbook.db data into my database in which i am going to create my own addressbook ...

Answer: 
Yes it os possible.

Look here:

<http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/ContactData/Conceptual/AddressBookProgrammingGuideforiPhone/Introduction.html>

It would like like that:

```
ABAddressBookRef addressBook = ABAddressBookCreate( );
CFArrayRef allPeople = ABAddressBookCopyArrayOfAllPeople( addressBook );
CFIndex numberOfAllPeople = ABAddressBookGetPersonCount( addressBook );

for ( int i = 0; i < numberOfAllPeople; i++ )
{
ABRecordRef ref = CFArrayGetValueAtIndex( numberOfAllPeople, i );
//use the ref to store its properties in your db
}

```
There is another Stackoverflow question which I posted a while ago that has some good answers that may be of some use to you.

* [Does anyone know of a wrapper for the Addressbook framework for iphone?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3338542/does-anyone-know-of-a-wrapper-for-the-addressbook-framework-for-iphone)

However to answer your specific question as to whether you can export AddressBook.sqlitedb to your app, I think the answer is probably no. You can achieve it via the AB Wrapper,but not by direct copying.