# MessageKit

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Welcome to MessagesKit. 

## Table of Contents
[**Goal**](#Goal)
* [**Goal**](#Goal)📈
* [**Contributing**](#Contributing)
* [**Getting started**](#Getting-started)
* [**Requirements**](#Requirements)
* [**Code of Conduct**](#Code-of-Conduct)
* [**What's Next**](#What's-Next)
* [**Apps using this library**](#Apps-using-this-library)
* [**License**](#License)
[**Installation Options**](#font-installation)

## Goal

- Provide a safe 👩‍🚒 enviroment for others to learn an grow through Open Source.
- Make adding `Chat` to a project easy.💬
- Enable beautiful Chat UI's.
- Provide an awesome Open Source project for people by people.
- Help others learn.

#### Vision
See [VISION.md](https://github.com/MessageKit/MessageKit/blob/master/VISION.md) for Goals, Scope, & Technical Considerations.

### `Getting started`
**Recomended**
## [CocoaPods](https://cocoapods.org/)
    Use `CocoaPods` add
````ruby
pod 'MessageKit'
````
to your `Podfile` and run `pod update`


## `Requirements`

* iOS10 or later

## `Contributing`

- This is great that you want to contribute 💯. Your what makes this possible, We would appriciate if you would look over these [Contributing Guide Lines](https://cocoapods.org/) to help us keep this community awesome.
- Then come join us on [Slack](https://join.slack.com/t/messagekit/shared_invite/MjI0NDkxNjgwMzA3LTE1MDIzMTU0MjUtMzJhZDZlNTkxMA) and 🗣 don't be a stranger. 
    - The Projcet is in active development and the branches my not be in sync so speak up in `SLACK` and communicate with what you are or want to work on. 
- Check out the current [issues](https://github.com/MessageKit/MessageKit/issues) and see if you can tackle any of those. 
- Check out the current code base and suggest any improvements you would like to work on by creating a `New Issue`. 
- Check out the [**What's Next**](#What's-Next) section 👇 to see where we are headed.
- Install [SwiftLint] too keep yourself in 👨‍🎤style. 
- Be Kind and 🤓helpful.  

##`What's Next`

Check out the [Releases](https://github.com/MessageKit/MessageKit/releases) to see what we are working on next.

#Apps using this library#

Add your app to the list of apps using this library and make a pull request. We appriciate you and hope you contribute. *Please provide attribution, it is greatly appreciated.*
## License
## `License`

`MessageKit` is released under an [MIT License][mitLink].🤓
* Many thanks to [**the contributors**](https://github.com/MessageKit/MessageKit/graphs/contributors) of this project.

[mitLink]:http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
*Please provide attribution, it is greatly appreciated.*

Inspired by [JSQMessagesViewController](https://github.com/jessesquires/JSQMessagesViewController) 👈 💯

## Font Installation

### `Option 1: Download and Install Manually`