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Accessing Built-in Applications

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN IN THIS CHAPTER

• How to send e-mails from within your application
• Invoking Safari from within your application
• How to invoke the phone from within your application
• How to send SMS messages from within your application
• Accessing the camera and Photo Library

The iPhone comes with a number of built-in applications that make it one of the mostpopular mobile devices of all time. Some of these applications are Mail, Phone, Safari, SMS, and Calendar. These applications perform most of the tasks you would expect from a mobile phone. As an iPhonedeveloper, you can also programmatically invoke these applications from within your application using the various APIs provided by the iOS SDK.

In this chapter, you learn how to invoke some of the built-in applications that are bundled with the iPhone, as well as how to interact with them from within your iPhone application.