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Android Gtalk API?

Long back, android used to have GtalkService that let applications use Gtalk for various purposes, it was removed due to security reasons. Do we still have a method of invoking a Gtalk service that let us interact with gtalk from another application e.g. pinging a friend programmatically.

Solution

  • GTalk is nothing else as a Google XMPP Service. So you have 2 options for android:

    1. Use Asmack, a ported Smack Library for Android

    or

    1. Use AsmackService (not yet releases but functional), together with AsmackLibrary.