Home/ Questions/Q 7016141
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-05-27T22:44:45+00:00

What I’m trying to achieve is a connection between a users browser (logged in

  • 0

What I’m trying to achieve is a connection between a users browser (logged in with his Google account) and an Android application on his phone (also logged in with the same Google account). I want to send a bunch of text formatted as JSON from GWT to the device and the other way round too.

My first thought was to send a C2DM ping to the Android devices and wake up a service witch connects to the App Engine server or the GWT client directly (if that’s possible).

What I’m doing now is a socket with the Channel API from GWT to App Engine. And for a large amount of text I would just send a notification via the Channel to the GWT client, which then gets the data with a RPCall. Missing is the connection between the App Engine and the Android application. What I could do is C2DM for one direction and simple HTTP requests for the other direction. I don’t like this solution, because C2DM can be really slow some times. Is there a solution to connect these two (GAE & Android app), or even a better without App Engine and a connection between the GWT client and the Android client directly ?

Thanks in advance 🙂

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    If I understand your question correctly, you’re looking to push messages from a server (in your case GAE) to an Android app without using C2DM? In that case you can give pubnub a try.

    Edit: of course you have a few options in this area (another one being Urban Airship) but you’ll notice that they’re not cheap!

    • 0