Presence and IntComm WG

[Peter Saint-Andre <>]

Darian Anthony Patrick wrote:
> Neal McBurnett wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Last year there were rumblings that Google was moving away from XMPP
> to a binary protocol, which they felt was more mobile
> device-friendly. Here is one post on the topic, from someone who
> welcomes the change:
> 
> http://www.simplicidade.org/notes/archives/2008/02/android_xmpp_an.html

Well there's a long story and backchannel about all of that. Basically
their binary stuff is a one-to-one mapping to/from XMPP, and we could
definitely standardize something like that. In fact we'll have some
talks about this kind of thing at FOSDEM this weekend:

http://xmpp.org/summit/summit6.shtml

Peter

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