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Reputation: 11309

Developing a push application for different mobile platforms

I must confess I am totally new to developing push services. I have to develop a REST web service (using jersey) which serves similar apps - one on Blackberry, second Android and the other Windows. I need to add push support to my service, for notifying these 3 kinds of client apps. I have been going through some blogs regarding which approach is to taken (I could google for many alternatives ), and it seems best to me to go for MQTT.

I cant think what method is appropriate for diverse mobile platforms, is MQTT a good choice ?

Plus, I would like to know, do the client have to be aware of the server technology used for pushing ? That is, say, if I go for implementing MQTT, would my client need to write MQTT specific code ? I would prefer a method where the client does not deal with such dependencies.

Thanks !!

Upvotes: 0

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Answers (1)

ralight
ralight

Reputation: 11608

I'm not familiar with mobile development at all, but you may be interested in the blog post that Dale Lane posted yesterday: http://dalelane.co.uk/blog/?p=1599 He describes lots of useful things for working with MQTT on Android and provides example code.

The client will most likely be using a library for whatever push technology you look at, so any code they write would be specific to that library. I imagine you could write enough code yourself (or see from the examples above) so that the client doesn't need to worry particularly about MQTT or whichever push technology you use.

Upvotes: 1

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