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ChrisMarshallNY on Dec 2, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Interface Ideas for Chat Apps

> And since these are proprietary apps mostly on proprietary protocols I also can't hook my own code into it to fix the problems.

I think Apple lets you leverage their Messages API (Disclaimer: I have not done so).

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/messages

connorgurney on Dec 3, 2022 [–]

This wouldn't work for, say, programatically marking messages read or unread.

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