Since I was in high school, I've always wanted a macOS application to send a 'Text Bomb.' For those who are unfamiliar with the term, a 'Text Bomb' is when you send hundreds (potentially thousands) of messages to one person at once. I've wanted this application for several reasons: (1) for revenge on scammers; it'd be great to have a way to flood their phone with thousands of nonsense messagges as payback; (2) a prank on a good friend :)

For example, I used this app to send my friend the entire Bee Movie script word by word over iMessage.

I built this application in Python. To take it a step further, I wanted to make it an installable macOS application, so that I could share it with my friends and the world.

I worked by myself.

I learned how to write an Apple Script. I wrote a script that takes 2 arguments (recipient number and word to send them). The script then sends the word provided over iMessage.

I then wrote a python script that parses a string word by word and calls this Apple Script for every word.

I then learned how to use PyQt to build a simple user interface. (I didn't want people to have to use the command-line.)

I then used py2app to build a standalone macOS application. I used the following tutorial: http://www.marinamele.com/from-a-python-script-to-a-portable-mac-application-with-py2app

I then used the following Medium tutorial to build a macOS installer. This way, users can install the application and its necessary scripts (the sendMessage Apple Script).

Going into this hack-a-thing, I wanted to build a standalone macOS app. I don't know what exactly I'm going to build as my final project in this class yet, but I think there is a high potential that it is a desktop app. Now, I know how to build a macOS app and an installer!

With my program, you can only text bomb people with iMessage.

OpenTextBomb-macos-installer-x64-1.0.0.pkg and follow instructions.

Two options:

• (1) if you installed the application, open and run it
• (2a) open TextBomb.py and change line 23 to os.system('osascript sendMessage.scpt ' + self.number + ' ' + word).
• (2b) run python3 TextBomb.py

$ cd src $ rm -rf build dist $ python3 setup.py py2app

$ cd macOS-x64/application/ $ sudo rm -rf TextBomb.app $ cd ../.. $ sudo cp -r ./pythonFiles/dist/ ./macOS-x64/application/ $ cd macOS-x64 $ bash ./build-macos-x64.sh TextBomb 1.0.0

The macOS installer will be located in macOS-x64/target/pkg.