Allow 3rd party apps to publish to People hub / messaging
It would be beneficial to allow other messenger apps and social apps to come on board and allow their updates to show up in the people hub and messages to show up in the integrated messaging system. This would be great for any 3rd party app that has any social or messaging means to be able to leverage that kind of interconnectivity, example another IM provider (ex: Yahoo), social network provider, even apps for forum postings.
Brandon Sproul
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Thank you for the suggestion and the spirited commentary. We are not adding this capability in the 8.0 release, but know that it is high on the consideration list for future Windows Phone releases.
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Mike Baughan commented
This makes so much sense - allows you to use any of your IM applications + SMS with a common UI. The whole purpose of a hub is to integrate common functions into a single point of access. It also makes sense to be able to have your 3rd party IM contacts integrated (either as new contacts or linked with existing contacts).
Similar integration should be available in the music and pictures hubs as well. To a degree, there is integration, but deeper integration would really make WP stand out.
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David
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Please make this happen.
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merlin3000
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This is a much needed feature windows always was (with more or less difficulty) customizable and extensible.
All the hubs should have this feature.
This is probably the same suggestion as http://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/110705-app-platform/suggestions/2469313-allow-3rd-party-access-to-hubs-me-people-pictur. -
Asheem
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This is very important to he idea of having Hubs. They are not useful, unless they can be plugged into by others. Even MS's Lync app should get absorbed in to the Messaging Hub. Or at least have an option of using them separately or via the hub.
An API story around this will allow users to have a robust user experience across all messaging systems with the ability to use the app, if they want the independent features of that app.
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knadri
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comment 12
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brianminister commented
I have my own corp sites that I would like to integrate the feeds for both messaging and community content, plus our internal contacts, into the windows phone.
Since these contacts are separate from our mail system, to prevent spamming, this would be very useful.
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nero88
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I often miss chat messages because they're buried into fb messages, if you can give me the entire conversation this problem would not occurr.
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Emil
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i agree using the new facebook message service (merge chat and offline messages) in message hub
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Daniel
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Make it happen guys!
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Ivan Vacula
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I don't really care about the People hub access that much, but being able to integrate an IM into Messaging is essential.
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NikoGJ
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This would be a huge and amazing integration!
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adamopinheiro
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That would make a huge difference. whatsapp, kik, all messaging apps should be integrated in the messaging hub.
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Peter Fares
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This is extremely important. Please allow third parties to plug into the messaging app and add messaging services. I need a GTalk client on my phone. GTalk and good turn by turn navigation are the only features I miss from Android.
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appie flappie
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YES! This must be available Microsoft, because otherwise apps like Whatsapp would have to be launched outside the hub and that means less integration!
