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Very cool!

Maybe this is obvious to everyone else but just to confirm with the OP: does the SDK allow me to add chat functionality to my app or is it mainly for content right now?

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It is designed for content - textual & binary. While I can imagine an ugly fugly way to overload the api and use it for chat functionality within your app, but then it would make for a really bad user experience within your app.

This version of the SDK was designed with the sole intent of content sharing.

(I'm not the OP) It's just for content right now (content = files, arbitrary text data, images, etc). Once the content is shared, the people can chat about it within Kik of course... but that's not the same as in-app chat.

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