Strom, We're recommending Firebase as an alternative to the Channel API. Please have a look at this article on how to use it with App Engine: https://cloud.google.com/solutions/using-firebase-real-time-events-app-engine. As it connects to all manner of clients (web, Android, iOS), we believe it's a robust solution for Channel API users. Please have a look at it in addition to the other investigations you mentioned.
Kind regards, Morgan On Sunday, November 6, 2016 at 8:23:33 PM UTC-8, Strom wrote: > > How nice, another piece of GAE being shut down. > > As for alternatives, I've found the following four that I'll be looking > into: > * https://pusher.com/ > * https://www.pubnub.com/ > * https://www.ably.io/ > * https://framework.realtime.co/ > > On Sunday, October 30, 2016 at 3:58:41 AM UTC+2, PK wrote: >> >> Google is shutting down the Channel API. I had found the existing API >> difficult to use but after I had figured out my patterns it has been >> working well for my purposes. In fact the biggest annoyance has been that >> it does not work as reliable on the dev server as it works in production >> making me many times chase dev server only issues. I am wondering how many >> people just gave up when it was not working for them on the dev server. >> >> Google is recommending to use Firebase but is seems a bit more >> heavyweight that what the Channel API was. Are there any alternatives for >> lightweight callback communication similar to what the Channel API has been >> providing that you would recommend? >> >> Thanks, >> PK >> [email protected] >> >> >> >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/b249ef2d-3b80-4eb3-9824-a1fb21c3655d%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
