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Code Quality Rank: L4

Programming language: Objective-C

License: MIT License

Tags: Messaging

Latest version: v8.0.0

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README

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This library is deprecated. Please read my blog post for details.

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Features

See the website for the list of features.

Design Goals

Closely mimic the iOS Messages style and behavior
SOLID design
Easy customization and extension for clients

Dependencies

JSQSystemSoundPlayer

Requirements

iOS 7.0+
ARC

Installation

CocoaPods (recommended)

# For latest release in cocoapods
pod 'JSQMessagesViewController'

# Latest on develop
pod 'JSQMessagesViewController', :git => 'https://github.com/jessesquires/JSQMessagesViewController.git', :branch => 'develop'

# For version 5.3.2
pod 'JSQMessagesViewController', :git => 'https://github.com/jessesquires/JSQMessagesViewController', :branch => 'version_5.3.2_patch'

Getting Started

See the Getting Started guide!

Questions & Help

Review the FAQ.
Search issues for previous and current questions. Do not open duplicates.
StackOverflow is often the most appropriate place for questions and help. We have our own tag, jsqmessagesviewcontroller.
See the Migration Guide for migrating between major versions of the library.
Only ask questions that are specific to this library.
Please avoid emailing questions. I prefer to keep questions and their answers open-source.

Documentation

Read the docs, available here via @CocoaDocs.

Core team

Jesse Squires (@jesse_squires)
Harlan Haskans (@harlanhaskins)
Eli Burke (@eliburke)

Contributing

Please follow these sweet contribution guidelines.

Interested in becoming a core contributor with push access? See our onboarding guide for details.

Donate

Support the development of this free library! Donate via Square Cash.

Credits

Created and maintained by @jesse_squires.
Many thanks to the contributors of this project.
iOS assets extracted using @0xced / iOS-Artwork-Extractor.

Apps using this library

According to CocoaPods stats, over 36,000 apps are using JSQMessagesViewController. Here are the ones that we know about. Please submit a pull request to add your app! :smile:

License

JSQMessagesViewController is released under an MIT License. See LICENSE for details.

Copyright © 2013-present Jesse Squires.

Please provide attribution, it is greatly appreciated.

*Note that all licence references and agreements mentioned in the JSQMessagesViewController README section above are relevant to that project's source code only.