How to make Chat Application in Android Using XMPP and GCM

Question

I want to make a chat application using XMPP and GCM. but i didn't find some good tutorial or solution. I am using smack library for XMPP client and there are lots of jar files available. Please tell me which jar file should i use. And what is my next step. Please help me i am stuck from more then 2 weeks,

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

If you want to build a chat application using XMPP, you probably do not need GCM, since a server implementing XMPP would be sufficient for your needs (an XMPP server simply pushes messages, so why use GCM here?).

I have used Openfire as XMPP server and Smack for XMPP client to make a basic chat application. But you can find other open source (or paid) XMPP server implementations from this link

And yes, there are not much simple tutorials about that, but you can still find a lot of sample code and work your way around them. May it be easy.