biojab biojab wrote: > http://code.google.com/android/migrating/m3-to-m5/m5-api-changes.html#gtalk
First of all, don't panic. As I understand it from one of the Android team members, they have been using XMPP communications (sent only via the Google Talk service) as a way for developers to debug their code by sending handset-to-handset messages. This usage was quite limited and the server was hardcoded to talk.google.com for that reason. This package was never intended for broader use, e.g. as a general messaging service that could be used for all the things we're familiar with from the XMPP universe (presence, IM, RPC, Jingle, etc.). Naturally if developers want a more robust messaging service that they could hook up to their own XMPP servers, they could simply use a full XMPP library (a likely candidate is Smack, since Android is all Java all the time). Since Android was never doing anything very extensive with XMPP, it's not exactly the end of the world that they are more clearly labelling this package as a GTalk-only debug channel. Now, whether it would be better for Android in the long run if they were doing something more extensive with XMPP is another question... :) Peter -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/
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