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Mobile web browser with built-in messaging APIs

Kik is the first smartphone messenger with a built-in browser. Functioning like a regular mobile browser it provides extra functionality such as messaging, push notification, other social & devices APIs.

Home page: http://dev.kik.com/

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Document.Onload doesn't work properly in Kik

I was recently trying my best to create a Kik app that dynamically loaded some content -- messages -- into a textbox when the app launched. document.onload wasn't doing it for me. I tried JQuery's $(document).ready and $(window).load to no…
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KIK: How do I programatically open the sidebar?

Is there a way for me to open the sidebar using one of the buttons on my HTML5 app? I know KIK displays that "3 vertical dots" button/slider on the left for users to open the sidebar, but can I still trigger that using JavaScript?
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Why must the user tap inside my app before events (like Focus etc) work?

I've been messing around in a Kik web app for Android. I noticed that certain events do not fire properly until the user has interacted with the page. The problem manifests itself in Kik, but it also shows up in the stock web browser on my Galaxy S5…
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Uploading files using the Kik Browser

I'm trying to build a file-sharing app for Kik but the Kik messenger browser seems to disable a simple html file input element like this: Why is this not working and is there any other way to upload files from within…
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Removed from New listing and Search

Our app has been removed from News and Search. We see KikBot in the logs hitting the site periodically. After patiently waiting 48hrs, where can we open a support ticket?
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Kik messenger HTTPS issue

I'm working on a web application for use within Kik messenger. I want to be able to authenticate the user using the sign method, so I'm serving the page via HTTPS as per documentation. Unfortunately HTTPS seems to break my page and Kik just shows a…
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White Flash when using Touchswipe js on Android

I am currently writing a mobile web app thats uses touchwipe js library to display an image gallery. The app works as expected on iPhone, but on Android there is a very annoying white flash that appears when swiping between images. Thanks for the…
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Bad HTML5 Canvas rendering performance

I experience very bad canvas rendering performance inside Kik for my HTML5 game in contrast to native (default) Android browser on Samsung S5 and S4 devices (models for US market). S5 default browser gives 115 rendering operations per second, Kik…
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Kik requirements to application load time

Our application is a full-featured game the should load ~15MB of assets, mainly graphics and sounds (PNGs are already optimized with tinyPNG, sounds are MP3/OGG with average bitrate). So, the game load time is far great than 4000ms (first time). But…
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Caching Facebook Profiles With Appcache

I am having an issue caching facebook profile pictures using appcache. In my Cache Manifest, I have a number of external resources successfully cached so I tried to save profiles in the same manner (for eg,…
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Localization for Kik applications

Kik has mentioned that it has 120M users from 225 countries. That way Kik should support localization for its UI and Kik apps also. So, the question is how HTML5/JS application can get current user locale to show UI using user locale? Thanks, Serg.
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Beta-testing of products inside KiK

Is it possible to publish application in Kik, but restrict access for limited number of users? Something like Facebook sandbox mode. Thanks, Serg.
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Hide the HTML5 game for specific devices in KiK

Is there any ability to hide the HTML5 game in KiK on certain devices/OSes? "to hide" means not to show the game in KiK search results. Thanks,
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sending kik message with timer without calling the page

I'm programming a calendar website. The reminder message should be sent using kik. Therefore I need to send a message even if the page is not actually called. Is there a possibility to do this, for example using a timer that is set when the…
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kik.metrics.enableGoogleAnalytics() not longer working properly

I have implemented kik.metrics.enableGoogleAnalytics(); on my kik page and confirmed in my google analytics that "kikSend" and "kikReceive" were in fact pinging my GA account. However, in some recent tests I found those pings appear to be very…
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