Programmatically check iMessage support of contact

Question

I am developing an app that loads the contacts in a UITableView on my iPhone. It works fine, my issue is I want to know whether the recipient's mobile number or email address is supporting iMessage or not using Objective-C. Please tell me if I am not clear.

Answer 1

This is not available through the public SDK. If you have a jailbroken device you can use the ChatKit framework.

Answer 2

There is not public API to do this in the current iOS SDK.

If you do manage to find some kind of private API to do it, your app will likely be rejected if you submit it to the App Store.