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Chapter 10

Importing Birthdays from the Address Book

We've passed the halfway mark in our project. It's Day 4 and most of the hard work is now behind us. Today we'll focus on importing friends and family birthdays into Birthday Reminder. We'll make this process super easy for our users. In just a few taps, they will have an app full of birthdays.

With any app that you build, designing your user experience to be simple and easy to use is essential. We want to avoid putting our users through the laborious process of manually entering every friend's birthday into the app. They will quickly get very bored! Apple's Phone Contacts app, a.k.a. the ...

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