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MessageKit Vision

Goals

  • Provide a suitable replacement (but not absolute mirror image) of JSQMessagesViewController.
  • Provide “sensible defaults, but also customization hooks" - @jessesquires
  • Favor a Swift-first, idiomatic API.
  • Build a centralized MessageViewController project for iOS.
  • Cultivate an inclusive open source community through respectful discussion.

Scope

Things we will not support:

  • Views that live outside of the MessagesViewController such as photo pickers and media players.
  • Anything that favors specific networking / caching strategies or specific libraries.

Instead, MessageKit will provide you with hooks to easily handle these situations as you wish. We believe this is more flexible, maintainable, and reasonable.

Technical Considerations

  • iOS version: We will strive to support the 3 latest versions of iOS.

  • Objective-C Compatibility: We will not sacrifice functionality or an idiomatic Swift API to support Objective-C, but would love to improve Objective-C compatability where possible.

  • Layouts: We will favor programmatic layouts over .xibs where ever possible.