Official XMPP client in the iPhone ?
Posted by Process-one on June 09, 2008We will actually be able to check today if the rumors were right: Will an Apple XMPP client support be added to the iPhone firmware ?
A few months ago, iPhone insider spotted reference to XMPP framework in the iPhone firmware.
With the new iPhone 2.0 firmware expected to be released today, we will be able to check if the rumour was actually true. If this is the case, it will be probably announced by Steve Jobs during the introduction keynote at WWDC 2008. You can share your opinion before the end of the keynote in the comments on this page.
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Watching the keynote now. Still early… nothing announced yet.
I think its just that iChat (which, of course, has Jabber support) is going to be announced for the iPhone (and maybe for Windows 
), but it could be something else 
(or I could just be wrong… ).
Cheers,
- Bill
Posted by William J. Edney on 09 Jun 2008 at 18:27
Steve Jobs talked about the API, but no reference to an XMPP API it seems.
Posted by Mickaël Rémond on 09 Jun 2008 at 18:29
Social network application (Loopt) provides some “text” messaging features.
Posted by Mickaël Rémond on 09 Jun 2008 at 18:39
We are getting closer: no background application but a generic Apple service to push events to the iPhone and wake up the application on incoming events.
Posted by Mickaël Rémond on 09 Jun 2008 at 19:07
Push feature only available in september though.
Posted by Mickaël Rémond on 09 Jun 2008 at 19:09
No luck, yet.
No XMPP support in sight. Were rumors wrong ?
The conference has ended: no XMPP support in iPhone.
Posted by Mickaël Rémond on 09 Jun 2008 at 19:52
What benefits XMPP able to add to iPhon?
Posted by NAV on 10 Jun 2008 at 12:13
Hej, wouldnt it be easy to port some other xmpp library over to the iPhone or is it that closed?
Christoph
Posted by Christoph Görn on 10 Jun 2008 at 13:45
Nav: XMPP means “chat”
Posted by Mickaël Rémond on 10 Jun 2008 at 13:47
Christoph,
I have played a bit at the iPhone dev kit and yes I think porting or even writting a new XMPP library is possible (except if I missed something tricky).
Posted by Mickaël Rémond on 10 Jun 2008 at 13:49
Mickaël, I am interested to test any XMPP stack on iPhone. Sadly, nothing at WWDC to report in this area.
The push service from Apple will come in September:
http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/iphone-push-notification-service-for-devs-announced/
George
Posted by George Bray on 13 Jun 2008 at 07:18
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