From the course: Building an iOS Messages Application

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Set up Messages extensions

Set up Messages extensions

- You can create a Messages Extension in two ways, either as a stand alone project, or as a target or an extension to an existing project. To create it as a stand alone project, just create a new project as you normally would, either from the welcome screen or from the file menu. Under IOS, choose iMessage Application and hit next. Then give the product a name. I'll call this Plain Ol' Notes. I'll hit next. I'll save the project in Chapter One, Create Extension Final. If you're following along with the exercise files, choose the start folder instead. I'll hit create, and there's my Messages Extension. So, this is a stand alone Messages Extension App. If you want to create one that you add on to an existing project, you're going to open up that project, and then got to File, New, Target, and then in there, under IOS, you'll see iMessage Extension. You can click next from there, and then give the product a name and then hit finish. And, then the same Messages Extension group will be…

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