{"id":42259,"date":"2018-12-10T03:01:13","date_gmt":"2018-12-09T17:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=42259"},"modified":"2018-12-09T19:18:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T09:18:20","slug":"ios-imessage-apps-primer-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/ios-imessage-apps-primer-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS iMessage Apps Primer Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a title='iOS iMessage Apps Primer Tutorial' href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/iPhone\/iMessage.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;border: 15px solid pink;\" alt=\"iOS iMessage Apps Primer Tutorial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/iPhone\/iMessage.jpg\" title=\"iOS iMessage Apps Primer Tutorial\"  \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">iOS iMessage Apps Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\nIntegration is the name of the game.<br \/>\nIn each generation, it&#8217;s basically the same.<br \/>\niOS is no exception, is not seeking fame.<br \/>\niSeek, iPad, iPhone, iMessage, it&#8217;s not lame.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> &#8230; and today, given the paucity of &#8220;iEmail&#8221; which would have been our favoured <a target=_blank title='Apple' href='https:\/\/apple.com'>Apple<\/a> <a target=_blank title='iOS' href='https:\/\/www.apple.com\/au\/ios\/ios-12\/'>iOS<\/a> app communication tool, we present today, a small treatise on other iOS apps that have chosen as their life&#8217;s mission, to interface to the iOS iMessage app, the &#8220;big speech bubble green background&#8221; icon app, usually very prominent (often next to the Phone app, forming the &#8220;Speedy Gonzales&#8221; couple of the communication woooorrrrlllldd) on most people&#8217;s iOS desktop.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe you &#8220;think SMS, think iMessage&#8221; and that would be fine, sending brief, but almost instantaneously delivered messages to another mobile phone number.<\/p>\n<p>These days, though, the iOS iMessage app can be so much more than that, and still have those instantaneously delivered messages &#8220;be the go&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>So other than &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SMS text messages &#8230; please remember that (at least with our iOS 12.1 version) &#8230; out of the box other apps that can be used include &#8230;<\/p>\n<li>Digital Touch app &#8230; really cute scribbling capability &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Photos app via Camera app photos and videos (though am sure there is a media size limit here) &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Music (with iTunes icon) app &#8230; can include music, or there and then use the iPhone microphone to record your voice (like with a Voice Memo), like with Dictation &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Shop (with Apple Store icon) app &#8230; interfaces with Apple Store related messaging &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>#images app &#8230; ideas from around the place of a visual nature including animations that look like animated GIFs &#8230; and then not out of the box, and it depends what you&#8217;ve installed yourself off the Apple Store, at least for us &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Spotify app &#8230; can interface to iMessage with music<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Feel free to take a look at a <a title='iOS iMessage Apps Primer Tutorial' href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/iPhone\/iMessage.pdf\" title=\"Click picture\">PDF slideshow<\/a> of us trying out some of these iOS iMessage app interfacings, ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>The iOS iMessage woooooorrrrrrlllllddd&#8217;s your oyster!<\/p>\n<p>You can also see this play out at WordPress 4.1.1&#8217;s <a target=_blank title='Codelobster PHP IDE MAMP Xdebug Primer Tutorial' href='https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/Codelobster PHP IDE MAMP Xdebug Primer Tutorial'>codelobster-php-ide-mamp-xdebug-primer-tutorial<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If this was interesting you may be interested in <a title='Click here to see topics in which you might be interested' href='#d42259' onclick='var dv=document.getElementById(\"d42259\"); dv.innerHTML = \"&lt;iframe width=670 height=600 src=\" + \"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/tag\/imessage\" + \"&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\"; dv.style.display = \"block\";'>this<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<div id='d42259' style='display: none; border-left: 2px solid green; border-top: 2px solid green;'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Integration is the name of the game. 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