iMessage on Android #Helpful Post

ey guys this is Austin from time to

time you might want to message someone

and have them actually respond hi Wes

all right this issue before I here

oh I have this issue all the time so

like many people out there I am on

Android yes but to the rest of the

population

I'm not seen as you know Wes or as a

nice guy or just someone with the phone

of their choice you're a green bubble

boy I am a green bubble boy I'll set the

scene for you a little bit so imagine

there you are you know you're on

whatever dating app you want maybe it's

tinder or Bumble or JDate farmers only

Mutual for our Mormon friends and then

everything's going really well

everything actually then gets the point

where you got to exchange phone numbers

now usually this is this is usually a

great point in the conversation but this

is where I start to become worried

because they're about to find out my

dark truth people I'm a green bubble boy

it's a very real thing it's ridiculous

but I knew that I needed to find a

solution so I mean there is the solution

you can go to apple.com slash iPhone

yeah but I want to find a solution for

the cool people like me we are in a very

strange time obviously where SMS despite

being the standard for text messaging

really is fading I mean you have most of

the world that's on like WeChat or line

Facebook Messenger

yep and I message and if people want

more features they want a cooler

messaging experience it completely makes

sense but they're still especially here

in the US there's not one thing to rule

them all right typically speaking a

phone number now 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 there is so there have been a

few attempts of this throughout the

years a lot of the solutions have been

focused on how do we sort of

jerry-rigged iMessage on to an Android

phone which don't really work well sure

Apple tends to knock those down pretty

quick yeah but what someone realized

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 that in

with that I don't own any Apple or Mac

products I'm here with my Chromebook and

my Android might you know the Android

wear device yeah 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 tell Ted or I yeah in fact this 2010

with a Core 2 Duo is running high sierra

okay which is amazing to be perfectly

honest all it really needs to do is now

I run an iMessage it also needs to run

what what's the program called it's

called air message so hahaha yeah and

it's only two piece of software you have

an app on your phone which is a

messaging client that honestly looks

pretty identical to androids messages

app already right and then it's a tiny

little piece of server-side software

that sits on the Mac and if you want you

can honestly buy a Mac Mini on eBay for

under 50 bucks that will do this and the

other advantage here is not only if you

were to do something like this you have

a Mac Mini which is perfectly capable to

be run as like a plex server or anything

like that sure or alternatively if you

have a Mac or you have someone else has

like an old Mac or if you have a brand

new one all you do is just load up this

piece of software and your Android phone

is ready to go with iMessage iMessage on

Android blue bubble messaging for your

favorite phone and it's amazing they

they don't even disguise it they know

there's a problem it's a straight front

center blue bubble messaging oh it's

from the internet do you want to really

open the Internet

I've heard of the Internet it's not good

oh that's alright so it's already up

cool love it great so it just runs as a

small program on the top of your bar

just a little program on the top of the

bar it'll show you how many clients are

connected there's a nice little security

thing yeah and just gives you

preferences on a few different ways to

connect okay

and this actually is a really big deal

for this project because with every

other attempt it's always been very

insecure you've had to go through

someone else's yeah yeah I don't want to

do with that yeah that's mad sketchy you

just want to connect straight to your

device and go oh so you're got to

actually do some DNS settings to make

sure the port forwarding is set up we

are but the great news is that it's dead

simple and it works incredibly well so

I'm guessing you need to just use in

email right and let's if you're

attached to your Apple ID yes so the

phone number part is a little sketchy

but when you message someone it will pop

up normally as our email and not a phone

number right which you know you can just

make some likes you which is actually

exactly what I did I just I don't know

why that happened I realized you think a

fair few people probably use iMessage

with emails anyway right I don't know

I'm new to this and you can also check

how often it scans for new messages

oh okay me so about how often would you

typically send it to I normally keep it

at 1 second just to make sure that

nothing jams up and then welcome to err

message yeah so now what we have to do

is set up our port forwarding so this is

gonna be very much dependent on what

your router is and everything but you

basically just need to log into the

router and clear whichever port that I

error message wants to be set up to go

out to your phone because the other

advantage here is that you obviously

don't need to have your phone on Wi-Fi

right so I think the phone we're gonna

be using here is this s10 II which is

specifically not on Wi-Fi just to show

that no matter where you are connected

to LTE or whatever iMessage is going to

work exactly the way that you would

expect it if you were using an iPhone so

by using a DDMS service which there are

tons of free amazing ones that are very

easy to use you can basically make a

fake website that just points at your IP

as it changes and then you put that

website into the app that'll look on

your phone so instead of having to

change your IP all the time which was a

problem with one of the older projects

that I tried and changing your IP

address every 30 minutes not okay it's

not okay

see yeah and with this all you have to

do is just pick what you want your host

URL to be blue Bowl boy your boy is the

only way to go and then they have all

sorts of different domains that you

don't manage Oh

so there's legitimately like a

five-minute setup process on your Mac

yep it is incredibly quick incredibly

easy and honestly just their guide that

they have on their website which will of

course will link in the description yeah

it's dead simple to use cool so the next

step is we need to download on the phone

yeah and here's what's really cool the

air message app doesn't have to be side

loaded it's in the Play Store this has

never been done before

you've always had if you're not

technically breaking any rule

right I mean yeah my messages landing on

the Mac exactly the way it's intended to

be and there's just an application which

just so happens to take that message and

forward it on to something else

exactly awful messaging on your Android

phone Mac computer required man I'm

actually like really surprised to see

Alan please I think just the amount that

it feels like a non sketchy thing yeah

it just it goes so far hey so when you

type the password incorrectly it works

all right so I'm going to message you at

blue bubble boy and see if it works yeah

go for it so pops up has NMS up there we

go we're blue all right cool hi bubble

hey hi Bubble Boy dude and it even has C

lists yeah it's that seamless and even

right there notifications you have the

mark is read or reply just like you

would have need we're on we're not on

Wi-Fi here so the Mac Mini and my phone

is on Wi-Fi but the s10 is specifically

on ulting you just to show that once you

have this part to set up everything is

completely seamless yeah anyway

it's amazing this has legitimately

changed my life people have they they

talk to me this is pretty bad this is

properly cool so if you guys want to get

iMessage on your own Androids and ascend

to the blue bubble boy realm I I just

like calling it being treated like a

normal human being you you too can find

love if you install this app and people

will respect you your parents will talk

to you your friends will talk to you

even if you have an lg v40 or it's not

like galaxies man it's definitely

personal no it's all because of the blue

bubbles it's not personal

no it's kind of personal