{"id":2683,"date":"2017-02-09T18:35:21","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T15:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tubikstudio.com\/?p=2683"},"modified":"2023-08-15T08:09:12","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T08:09:12","slug":"ios-tutorial-how-to-add-your-app-content-to-imessenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tubikstudio.com\/blog\/ios-tutorial-how-to-add-your-app-content-to-imessenger\/","title":{"rendered":"IOS Tutorial: How to Add Your App Content to iMessenger"},"content":{"rendered":"

Messengers have definitely become an integral part of everyday life for thousands of people: they are easy-to-use, quick and simple, and so helpful in exchanging information on the go and from anywhere you are. Moreover, with the rocketing progress of smartphone technologies, messengers are adding more and more functionality: right from the messenger you can send images and sometimes even files or documents, you can create group conversations, change the visual layout of the interface, classify your contacts etc. Recent years have also shown the instant wish people demonstrate in involving diverse graphics like emoji, stickers, animations, doodles and the like to make the chats brighter and to set the definite mood of communication.<\/span><\/p>\n

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One of the features, presented with iOS 10, became a great response to this trend: Apple opened iMessenger to the third-party developers via the feature called iMessenger Apps. having created the apps for iOS, developers are now able to synchronize their content with iMessenger, be it a sticker, an audio file or even some interactive stuff. If the path has been overcome correctly, the content can be integrated right into the messenger.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Recently we have tested this feature in practice, having opened the sticker pack from Toonie Alarm<\/a> directly to iMessenger, so today we offer our readers a brief tutorial on how to do it. Those, who will find this tutorial interesting and applicable in practice, presumably have the practice of work with Xcode and feel confident in coding UIKit-based iOS application.<\/span><\/p>\n

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So, first of all, let\u2019s mention once again that today we are working on the case when you have an iOS app, which is launched and operating, and its content (like images, photos, emoji, stickers, audio etc) can be potentially applicable to the process of communication via iMessage.<\/span><\/p>\n

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As we have dealt with stickers as a sort of shared content, a couple of words should be mentioned about the recommended format for the messages. For sticker packs, the file sizes recommended by Apple are:<\/span><\/p>\n