[jdev] is everybody using XMPP without knowing it?

[Christopher Orr]

On 09/01/13 11:09, Dave Cridland wrote:
>  > 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.

Hmm, I haven't heard before about GTalk on Android using Protobuf (not 
that Google has officially given any detail in either direction).

But if you look at the "GTalk Service Monitor" app (open the phone 
dialer, and dial *#*#TALK#*#*), you'll see mention of iq stanzas, the 
device JID, and Smack "SSLXMPPConnection", which all sounds pretty XMPP-y.

(Not that this necessarily proves that regular XMPP is actually sent 
over the wire)

Regards,
Chris