Presence and IntComm WG

[Peter Saint-Andre <>]

I know some folks who are working on a new XMPP client, which will work
on iPhone and support MUC. But I don't yet know the release timeline.
Will post more as I know more. :)

Neal McBurnett wrote:
> I've been getting on board with Google's open source Android platform
> recently (e.g. t-mobile G1 phone), which also does xmpp.  But I don't
> see any group chat (muc) clients yet.   And I recall not finding any
> gtalk chat rooms either even for desktop use.
> 
> And too bad it seems that google's code to implement the android
> client is not open source at least yet:
> 
>  https://stpeter.im/?p=2082
> 
> Another xmpp client is "meebo" but it doesn't seem to have muc either.
> 
> Google uses the open source smack api and library for their client on
> android, and some smack folks have put up their own instructions on
> writing client code with smack:
> 
>  
> http://davanum.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/android-just-use-smack-api-for-xmpp/
> 
> And smack seems to support muc
> 
>  
> http://www.igniterealtime.org/builds/smack/docs/latest/javadoc/org/jivesoftware/smackx/muc/MultiUserChat.html
> 
> so it may not be long before some good clients are out there.
> 
> What are some good open xmpp hosts that support creating your own chat
> rooms?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Neal McBurnett                 http://neal.mcburnett.org/
> 
> On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 04:03:10PM -0500, Callahan, Tim wrote:
>> The interest for iPhone groupchat has come up several times in our calls.
>>
>> We haven?t found a client yet but, I found that Beejive hints it is coming 
>> (per
>>  the last several months on their boards)  
>> http://www.beejive.com/support/forum
>> /viewtopic.php?f=7&t=273
>>
>> Sep 29  ?Unfortunately we don't currently support Jabber chat rooms on the
>> iPhone native app.
>>
>> This is coming soon however, as we will be adding group chat capabilities 
>> and
>> joining Jabber chat rooms will be included in that.?
>>
>> Nov 17 ?We're shooting for January?
>>
>> Jan 10, 2009 ?Chat rooms are not supported yet, but will be added at some
>> point. No ETA on them just yet.?
>>
>> So, I guess they are hard to implement- but at least other users are 
>> active in
>> asking for the feature.
>>
>> I was pretty happy with the group-less Beejive client for WindowsMobile, so
>> hopefully they?ll do well with adding the rooms.