i'm just throwing it out here.
Have you looked into the SMACK library for Android?:

 http://code.google.com/p/asmack/


On Apr 21, 4:17 am, SLY <sly.andr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am currently working on a project which requires a server to request
> data from the devices which are currently connected to the server.
> Meaning, first the server finds out which devices are connected to the
> server and then sends an application specific message to the client
> device which should wake certain functionality present on the client,
> like for example send out its current location.
>
> I was looking into XMPP service which looked promising since it works
> as a PUSH notification. The <presence> in XMPP can be used to check if
> the device is currently connected and has subscribed to the server.
> Since every android user has a gmail account, I was thinking of using
> the gmail xmpp service to connect /subscribe to the server. Then send
> specific message to the client, i.e x...@gmail.com. But if a message is
> sent this way the client app gets the message as well as the native
> gtalk client. So how do I go about intercepting this so that it
> doesn't show up on the gtalk client but my app still gets it.
>
> I want the PUSH notification to work, not PUSH.
>
> Please do comment on the above approach. If there is another way to do
> this, please do suggest.
>
> - SLY
>
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