[aerogear-dev] Android Sync Status

[Summers Pittman]

First the good news, I've refactored a lot of the xmpp-client code so 
now the sync client is correctly handled by an Android service. This 
gets around issues we were having earlier where the in-memory client 
would get GCed while the doc was in the background as well as some 
issues with loading documents when messages came in for the not 
currently being edited doc.

Now the bad news, the past two weeks we've been focusing on using 
Google's two way messaging for being the backbone of sync on Android for 
alpha.1.  One of the issues we knew about was the 4k message size limit 
in GCM and that after a POC phase we were going to have to address it.  
On Friday I noticed that the server was choking on messages much smaller 
than 4K.  Turns out that 4K includes all of the metadata around the 
message in addition to the payload.  I do not think the GCM bridge is a 
good tranport for alpha.1 and (if everyone agrees) will be focusing on 
the WebSocket based client.

One thing that this brings up that I didn't see in the AGSYNC Jira 
(unless I'm blind) was how to manage the socket-connectivity interaction 
on the clients.  Basically a protocol / pattern for how we manage the 
socket connections when the device gains and loses internet access or 
switches networks.  (For instance we should probably disconnect and 
reconnect when the device leaves a cellular network and joins a Wifi 
network)This is separate from collision handling/detection which does 
have a Jira.  If there isn't one (a connection handling Jira) should I 
make one?

Happy Monday y'all,

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Summers Pittman
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