Name: iMessage on Android
Uploaded: 2020-03-31T06:46:35.000Z
Duration: 8 min 12 s
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To-infinitive

From time to time, you might want to message someone

The imperative

So, like many people out there, I am on Android.

or just someone with a phone of their choice.

Maybe it's Tinder or Bumble or Jdate, FarmersOnly,

And then everything's going really well--

- I like to think you've tried every single one of those.

Now usually, this is usually a great point

they're about to find out my dark truth--

- Green bubble boy. - I'm a green bubble boy.

But I knew that I needed to find a solution, so--

We are in a very strange time, obviously,

where SMS, despite being the standard for text messaging,

- Facebook Messenger. - Yep and iMessage.

- But there's still, especially here in the U.S.,

there's not one thing to rule them all, right?

not only allows you to call, but also to text.

If you have iMessage, it's a completely seamless process.

So what do you need to get iMessage up on Android?

Obviously there's a Mac mini involved somehow.

a few attempts at this throughout the years.

A lot of the solutions have been focused on

how do we jerry-rig iMessage onto an Android phone

Apple tends to knock those down pretty quick.

kind of recently is hey, if we just get a Mac computer as

the central device to essentially ping the messages through,

we might be able to make an app on the phone side

I'm here with my Chromebook and my Android

So I wasn't about to go drop a ton of money on a Mac.

So in order for this to work, you need a Mac

that can run Yosemite, so 10.10 or higher.

- All it really needs to do is, not only run

iMessage, it also needs to run, what's the program called?

You have an app on your phone, which is a messaging client

And then it's a tiny little piece of server-side

software, that sits on the Mac, and if you want

- And the other advantage here is not only

you have a Mac Mini which is perfectly capable to be

run as like a Plex server, or anything like that

this piece of software, and your Android phone

Blue bubble messaging for your favorite phone!

- And it's amazing, they don't even disguise it.

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