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CNET News - Facebook demos apps inside Messenger

2015-03-25
I'm just going to reopen that thread i have what mark I'm definitely saving this to my camera roll for what it's worth and you'll notice that in the composer I have those three dots so tapping on those three dots expands the composer now I'm going to go and install giphy because I want gifts so tapping on the install button takes me straight into the App Store install it and when i get it i can actually have access to millions and millions of gifts in this case i want to fist i want to share a fist bump with mark so i'm going to go and type fist bump and then i have hundreds and hundreds of gifts of cool fist bumps and then I pick the one I want and you'll notice that at the bottom of that preview there's a big sent to messenger button and that's the new optimized flow that we're launching today so tapping on this takes me straight back into the conversation I have with mark so I don't have to fumble around trying to find who I need to send that to I'm right where I need to be I have this big beautiful preview of the content i'm about to share and i can just tap on send gift and I'm done and as you can see he sent me another piece of content and there are three things that I want to highlight here at the bottom of that content one is the app icon the second one is the app name and the third one is a reply link so now i have the legend app installed and that's why i have a reply link if i didn't have that app installed it would be an install link and i could go straight to the app store and reply with the same type of content i just received but since i have the app i'm just going to tap on reply and now i'm in the legends app and this is an amazing app that enables me to stylize and customize text and add animations and add photos and i can pick the animation i like and customize it with the colors i want in this case i'm going to try to make it as close to the messenger blue i can there we go and then hit messenger and I have this again freeview inside of the right thread and I can share right there that
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