[jdev] is everybody using XMPP without knowing it?

[Ralph Meijer]

On 2013-01-09 11:09, Dave Cridland wrote:
>
> On 9 Jan 2013 08:16, "Winfried Tilanus" <winfried at tilanus.com
> <mailto:winfried at tilanus.com>> wrote:
>  >
>  > On 01/09/2013 08:58 AM, Matěj Cepl wrote:
>  >
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  > > Android intents (whole communication between the Android phone and
>  > > Google Play store; when you click on the web that you want to
> install an
>  > > app and it is installed on the phone) is XMPP. That's actually the only
>  > > reason I have to have Talk installed (for chat I use dedicated client
>  > > against my own server at home).
>  >
>  > Thanks for the addition, during my searching, I already came across the
>  > link between Talk and the Play store. But is indeed safe to say that
>  > anybody using an Android device is using XMPP...
>  >
>
> I'm perfectly delighted to be proven wrong on this, but as far as I know
> GTalk on Android uses a Protocol Buffers (ie, Google ASN.2) based
> protocol, not XMPP as such.

And if you're not proven wrong on this, do these messages conceptually 
look anything like XMPP messages, albeit with a completely different 
serialization? I'm thinking of how e.g. RDF has many different 
serializations around a single conceptual model. Also, is this 
documented anywhere?

-- 
ralphm