Hi Mathu,
Is the change listed on this page what you are referring to?
http://code.google.com/android/migrating/m3-to-m5/changes.html
Package is renamed to com.google.android.gtalkservice. In names of
package classes and fields, "xmpp" is changed to "gtalk".
Does anyone else have any more information on this topic? Does this
mean that in effect anyone using an android handset with an
application that planed on using xmpp would now be locked to a gtalk
account? From my point of view and for what I would like to do with
android, the single most important piece of android is XMPP because it
allows my applications to receive push messages without http polling
and all of it's associated problems.
This switch to gtalk, which will effectively lock all android handset
xmpp communications to gtalk network is very troubling indeed. In fact
my this may very well kill the viability of an application that I am
building if this is the case.
Mike
On Feb 15, 8:03 am, Muthu Ramadoss <muthu.ramad...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> Lots of developers were excited about XMPP support in Android and were
> going crazy building peer to peer messaging services for Android. I
> personally was building a Twitter like service for Android. But with
> the latest announcement of plans with GTalk going native, many
> developers like me are forced to fallback on http, rest etc.,
> Let me explain how its affecting developers like us. Now instead of
> letting a free Jabber server doing the work for me, I'm forced to
> write my own REST server. Its not just a matter of falling back on
> alternate protocols but now we need to build the server components and
> all the mundane logic from scratch. Imagine for example building the
> twitter bot from scratch. Its a total waste of time and effort.
> People like me were attracted by the OpenSource ideology that Android
> stood for. Please do put XMPP support back on so we can continue
> building killer apps for Android. Trust in developers like us, We'll
> deliver.
> Thanks.
> Muthu Ramadoss
> intellibitz.com
> We develop open source solutions for mobile handsets, using Android.
