On 11/01/2010 07:28 PM, Stephen Pendleton wrote:
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
René Treffer
Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 8:56 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [jdev] XMPP on Android, Round #2
Hi,
It's been some time since my last posting. But I didn't stop thinking
about XMPP on Android devices. I've always been unhappy with asmack,
because it's sort of a hack. It does solve a problem, mainly to reduce
the amount of code to be written. But it doesn't solve the problem of
nice phone integration. We've ended up with many jabber apps on Android,
but none that's as native as e.g. a GTalk service.
Very impressive work! I have done a few XMPP implementations on Android
using a similar architecture (remote service+intents for stanza event
notifications). I will look to switching to this implementation.
One thing I think is missing from XMPP Android (and battery constrained
devices in general) is the ability to re-establish a data connection only
when an interesting event occurs when the application is in the background.
In this case, an interesting event would be that a chat message, or other
interesting stanza, arrived for me at the server.
For example, 95% of the time I am not actively interested in my XMPP app or
want to maintain a data connection to my XMPP server but am running my XMPP
app in the background on my phone. I only bring it to the foreground when I
want to send a message or to read a message. For the former, the XMPP app
will re-connect to the XMPP server when I am ready to send my message. For
the latter case the google cloud push service
(http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/05/android-cloud-to-device-mess
aging.html) could be employed to notify my client that a message exists for
me on the server. When I am ready to read it the XMPP app will re-connect
and fetch the message for me.
This would require a server component, and also a addition to the android
service that could process these messages. Do you have any interest in
implementing this idea on the client service side?
Thanks
Couldn't Stream managment help for that?
http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0198.html
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Yann
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