It's been removed in the latest versions of the SDK and the issue to put it back declined: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=201
It was really great while it was in. I wrote a multiplayer game using it for the first Android Developer Challenge. A player could choose to challenge a contact and my game would add a notification to the challenged party's phone letting them accept or decline. It was easy to use as a developer. No service needed to be implemented for the above functionality for example. It was also easy to use as a user. They didn't have to type in account info that they'd already entered into the phone. An app with the GTALK_SERVICE permission could just get right to work without bothering them. I think nowadays you have to include your own JAR for the Smack API in your app. Last one I saw for Android was around 711KB for functionality that used to be built in, which put me off a bit. On Nov 18, 7:35 am, KamanL <[email protected]> wrote: > I went through the Android introduction videos and in them an engineer > from Google spoke of an open XMPP/gtalk service provided by Android, > that developers could use to push messages out from a server to > Android devices. > > I googled the forums and dug through the SDK samples, but could not > find any code for these XMPP services. Also my search results only > returned entries logged in the Jan 2008 time frame an earlier (I found > this to be somewhat odd). Anyway, there was mention of a SMACK API > that handles xmpp messaging, but I'm assuming that android has their > own libraries for this. > > Would someone please point me in the right direction please? I'd like > to know which library I'm suppose to use for xmpp/gtalk and see some > sample code on this topic. > > Thanks so much, > > Kaman -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
