[jdev] XMPP on Android, Round #2

[Yann Leboulanger]

On 11/01/2010 07:28 PM, Stephen Pendleton wrote:
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: jdev-bounces at jabber.org [mailto:jdev-bounces at jabber.org] On Behalf Of
> René Treffer
> Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 8:56 PM
> To: jdev at jabber.org
> Subject: [jdev] XMPP on Android, Round #2
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>> 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

-- 
Yann