From the course: iOS App Development: Creating iMessage and Sticker Applications

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Structure of iMessage apps

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Structure of iMessage apps

- [Instructor] Life is full of wonderful choices, and the same is true when creating iMessages applications. iMessages apps can be added as an extension to your existing project or as a brand new iOS app. Let's take a look at both the projects. Launch Xcode and create a new project. Select a single view application and call it MyApp. Save it anywhere you like. Create the project. And this is going to simply add you to a single view application project. At this point, you can add an iMessages app by adding a new target to your existing application. Search for the Messages extension. Select the extension. Click Next. Name the extension, and activate the scheme for the Messages. At this point, you have added a Messages extension to your existing iOS application. Make sure that the scheme that you're selecting is of a Messages extension and simply run the app. And here you go. You have just run your first iMessages application as an extension to your existing iOS application. Now, when…

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