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Reading iOS contacts and sending SMS invitations

Introduces a small wrapper for a friend-invitation workflow: reading device contacts and opening the SMS composer. It lists the AddressBook, AddressBookUI and MessageUI dependencies and provides the LBContacts example project.

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I recently built an invite-a-friend feature that reads the phone's contacts and sends invitations by text message. I made a simple wrapper; take a look if you need it.

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Briefly, the 3 required frameworks are AddressBookUI.framework, AddressBook.framework, and MessageUI.framework.