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⚠️ Announcement ⚠️

Development on version 8.0 of the library is underway. Learn more at #1216 and #1336.

Submit work for v8.0 to the develop branch.

Submit fixes for v7.3.x to the release_7.3 branch.

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More screenshots available at CocoaControls

Features

See the website for the list of features.

Design Goals

• Closely mimic iMessage 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'

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)
• Sebastian Ludwig (@sebastianludwig)

Contributing

Please follow these sweet contribution guidelines.

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

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 10,000 apps are using JSQMessagesViewController. Here are the ones that we know about. Please submit a pull request to add your app! 😄

License

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

Copyright © 2013-present Jesse Squires.

Please provide attribution, it is greatly appreciated.