GAE as an XMPP server

Question

In relation with this question.

I am developing a mobile app (Android & iPhone) and I want users to be able to talk to each other. I learn from the question mentioned above that I can't use anonymous users and I need another server to handle that.

I would actually want the users to register a jabber id based on UDID of the device for the first run and then use that one for every other session.

• Is there a free service that allows me to register JIDs pragmatically?
• Would you recommend something different than GAE?

Answer 1

Have you considered the Android cloud to device messaging API? XMPP isn't really what you're looking for unless you want each user to establish an account on an XMPP server somewhere.

More importantly, why are you duplicating functionality? Most android devices come with perfectly satisfactory instant messaging solutions such as GTalk, and users aren't generally keen to add yet another way to communicate.