Hi, I'm using thrift running in an Android app to communicate with an iPhone app over a tcp socket. Overall it's working great, however one of the kinds of data i'm sending is image frames in order to construct a video stream and it's a little bit slow.
My objective is to create a separate UDP connection between the two devices and send only the video frames over that link and use my existing TSocket connection for everything else. But I've read that it would take a lot of work to modify thrift to work over udp so i'd like to just keep it simple and handle the udp socket connection with the standard java/cocoa utilities. However, since I am already using thrift on both sides it would be really nice to just send a serialized thrift object as my datagram packet over the udp socket. Then I could easily attach frame ordering and whatever other metadata I desired to each message. This seems like it should be possible, but I'm not sure how to do it. Does anyone have an idea? Do I want to be using the FileTransport? Thanks for any insight people might be able to provide. Paul
