Project Amy - App.net messaging integrated natively into Messages for the Mac

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107 points·alexknight··9 comments

Wait, this is an official Apple api to add additional networks to Messages? I'm surprised it exists. And even more surprised I haven't heard about it until now.

> http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/AppleA...

Two years old. Woah. This is very interesting. I feel silly for asking but does anybody know if this sort of thing is possible for the iOS Messages? (Probably not, but since this exists I don't know what to think anymore)

OP where's the source to Project Amy?

This project is closed source. I'm planning on doing a follow-up post on how to write an IMServicePlugIn.

https://apparchy.net/ is down, just FYI.

Unfortunately, iOS Messages is not extensible like this.

When Apple announced this framework back then at WWDC they showed a cool sample plugin: The plugin would receive a message, feed it through ELIZA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA) to create a response message. The demo ended with two iMessage instances chatting to each other and both used ELIZA. :)

As regards iOS Messages, it's possible. You just need a server to send/receive iMessages and interact with the App.net API.

From my experience with http://irepl.im, I wrote an introduction to playing with iMessage: https://46b.it/blog/2012/11/01/hacking-with-imessage/

Happy to help out or answer Qs if anyone's interested in making use of it :-)

Thanks, Steve. Really insightful integration of the best new API's in APP.net into a mainstream app. Many of APP.net's API's are truly superior, a jewel in the rough.

I agree that it's even better than Apparchy - the best hack at last Oct's hackathon.

It's devs like you (and others) which belie APP.net's long-term strength and genius.

This is so great!

Awesome!

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