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Amrith

AirMessage - Use iMessage on any Android phone 💬

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Apple’s messaging network has gained a lot of popularity in recent years, though it has long been locked down to their platforms. But now, AirMessage makes it easy to send and receive iMessages on any Android device.

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Hemanth Soni
What are the odds Apple can shut this down? I've heard other solutions in the past relied on loopholes that Apple closed after a while.
Jack Smith
@hemanth_soni yeah prob will get shut down soon i'd guess
Sethu Senthil
@hemanth_soni @_jacksmith This isn't violating any rules or regulations. You aren't sending messages from your Android Phone. You are actually sending messages from your Mac. It is kinda like teamviewer, controlling your mac wirelessly (this is an oversimplification) .
Matija Abicic
This isn't the first time something like this popped up. A few years ago there was a similar product, turned out all the requests were proxied through a mac mini somewhere in China or something. Lots of people were changing their apple id passwords in a frenzy :)
Hemanth Soni
@matijaabicic In this case, your own Mac is the "server" that is receiving the messages and relaying them to the Android app. I don't think it's a problem with this one.
Amrith
Hunter
Not an April Fool's prank! 👀
Sven van der Zee
@amrith really?
Amrith
Hunter
@svenvdz really, watch this 🙊
Carson Long

Definitely a cool technical project. I could have got on board except that I would have needed a dedicated Mac as a server host. I obviously can't use my day-to-day Mac for that, as I'm carrying it around with me most of the time. That prevents me from making AirMessage my go-to texting app bc I wouldn't be able to use it on the go. And if it's not my go-to app I'd rather remove it (for privacy reasons) and just use my native Android messaging. If I really need to iMessage someone I'll just stick with using my Mac and icloud address.

Pros:

- Works as advertised - Gives very detailed instructions

Cons:

- Potentially very intrusive from a privacy standpoint - Does not have all the iMessage features - Need a dedicated host Mac

Ziggy Crane
As an iPhone user, i have ever understood why use iMessage versus Whatsapp? I have never opened iMessage, except for sms.
Ibby Syed
@ziggycrane It's largely a US thing, I believe. We haven't caught on to how great other apps are.
Guillaume Bardet
Very interesting! Just the other day I was watching a video with a bunch of Youtubers mentioning this was one of their main issue with Android. Curious to see where this goes.
G G
I have an iPhone XS Max and have iMessage turned off. Most of the world has moved on to WhatsApp or Facebook messenger or Telegram.
Asher Weintraub
I swear to God if this is an April fool's prank
Lewis Lebentz
It's cool and nice that someone has put the time in to make it, however I don't depend on iMessage enough to leave a Mac on all day. If I could run this on an instance in AWS, I'd consider it. But I'm not going to leave a Mac on all day at home just to get iMessages.
Ibby Syed
@lewislebentz If you want to get real hacky, you can run hackintosh via a rasberry pi and use that as your own personal iMessage server :)
Antonio D'Ingiandi
Doesn’t it work (on Android) without a Mac (as a server)?
Arjun Paliath
This is not possible @daidardi since it requires a Mac to act as a relay.
Ibby Syed
This is really cool! In the US, iMessage is a big thing. Might be useful to set up a raspberry pi server using hackintosh and permanently run it that way.
Alok Ahuja
This works like a charm!! At first I thought it was an April's Fool joke, too good to be true. Excellent job @amrith
lanceneumann
Can you access it from a pc via web or app rather than just on Android? Thanks!
Mira Markle
nice
Jared Phillips

Will be sweet relief once itts in full flow!

Pros:

Does what it says on the tin

Cons:

Not quite perfect

Blake Robinson
Why would an Android user want to use iMessage?