Kazuki Nakajima
2018-10-23LINE Engineer
A new type of message has been added to the LINE Messaging API, Flex Message. We've been using a template-typed message in which you could place plain text, stickers, images, media types like videos, buttons and URLs. This type is quite useful for where the user had to select an option from available options, but there were restrictions such as the maximum number of buttons allowed, which is 4, for the button template, or the order in which you had to arrange the elements for a layout — titl
Kazuki Nakajima
2018-08-06LINE Engineer
Hi again, this is Nakajima, LINE's Developer Advocate.Be smart in using web with chatbots I am sure you've had at least one or more encounters with the following and ended up with frustration:Entering something in on mobile-unfriendly websitesHaving to sign in every time you access a webpageEntering something in on smartphones itself LINE the app is mostly used on smartphone, and this is why we value and put much effort into UX. Having been frustrated myself, I wondered how LINE could ease u
Kazuki Nakajima
2018-03-14LINE Engineer
What is a Bot Designer?
Bot Designer is an application which allows you to simulate and preview a conversation with a chatbot.
With the LINE Messaging API, you can make a bot send various types of messages such as texts, images, stickers, locations to a LINE user. To check how these messages are actually displayed on the LINE app, what you had to was to create a JSON object representing the message, call the Messaging API, and then check the sent message on the LINE app. Now, with Bot Designer,
Kazuki Nakajima
2018-03-12LINE Engineer
We are very pleased to announce that we have opened a new site, the LINE Developers community site, which you can easily access from the existing LINE developers site. Note the links are added on the top navigation bar and the left-hand side menu of the developer site. We hope the site to provide access to various services developed with the LINE API by third party developers, and also a container to stack technical information and know-how on the services developed. Currently, the site p
