I have a client who has a requirement for a chatting app. This app should make communication possible on Android and Blackberry.
Wonder if this is technically feasible? If yes then how? Any clue?
A:
Yes, all you need is a chat server and clients on both mobile devices that utilize the server. All these frameworks support web services, so its quite easy to create a web-service to handle this on the server for you.
You can probably skip the server and let them talk directly to each other.
Shawn Mclean
2010-09-22 07:38:42
You mean that we need to socket programming here! Just like we do it for a multiplayer games like Tic-Tac-Toe, Chess, etc.
Maxood
2010-09-22 07:43:20
if you wish, but in this age, thats kinda too low level. Use web services, you can build them using .net or java very easily.
Shawn Mclean
2010-09-22 07:44:30
Why did I get down-voted without an explanation?
Shawn Mclean
2010-09-22 07:46:37
A:
If you are looking for a technique to build three apps that can chat with each other regardless of phone OS this surely can be done.
You need to look for a chatting standard that is covered with libraries for all the three systems. I would look into Jabber/XMPP. It is the most commonly used open standard for submitting messages and at least for Android there is the Smack library that will run on Android and give you all the necessary functionality. I don't know which libraries can be used on iPhone or BB but there should be something available at least on the iPhone.
Janusz
2010-09-22 07:40:16
There are dozen of chat apps, not only WhatsApp which is getting your phone number and phone number of your friends (even your butcher if you have his phone number...)
fedj
2010-09-22 09:13:59