Presence and IntComm WG

[Jesse Thompson <>]

Version 2.0 of OneTeam ($5.99) for the iPhone will have groupchat.

Jesse

Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> 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.

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  Jesse Thompson
  Division of Information Technology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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