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Chapter 11

Working with Facebook and the iOS 6 Social Framework

Earlier today, we succeeded in setting up Birthday Reminder to batch import birthdays from the iPhone Address Book. But what would really enhance our app for millions of potential users is to enable them to import friends’ birthdays from their Facebook account.

In this chapter, we’ll take advantage of the new native Facebook integration in iOS 6. Working with Apple’s Accounts framework, you’ll learn how to enable your users to authenticate Birthday Reminder with Facebook. From there, you’ll discover how to use the new Social framework to access Facebook’s Graph API and enable users ...

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