Socket Chat is a demo app built using Android MVP Realtime architecture. You can read more about the architecture on my Medium article https://bit.ly/2KXcTan .
This app connects to Socket.IO chat room at https://socket-io-chat.now.sh. Suggestions for further improvements are most welcome.
Most of us Android developers have created apps using the MVP architecture. A regular android app involves making HTTP API calls to the server, getting some data and rendering the view. Using these APIs, you can accomplish things like
As you can see, HTTP APIs are quite simple, scalable and you can get a lot of things done. Once you learn MVP with RxJava and Retrofit you are ready to take on the world with your amazing app. Yay!!
This feeling of awesomeness is quickly replaced by confusion the moment you try to build realtime apps like
When I say Android MVP, I am referring to the Todo-MVP-RxJava example from googlesamples.
In this Android MVP example,
This architecuture is based on request-response model, where the client requests for some resource from the server and the server sends back a response. But the other way round, where the server sends data to the client and the client handles the data, is not possible in the architecture. Simply because, the client is not actively listening for incoming data from the server.
So for the app to be realtime app, it should be able to send and receive events/data from the server. Based on this, if we try to draw an architecture, it would look some thing like this.
This Android project is an working implementation of the proposed Android MVP Realtime architecture.
If you want to try out the app, follow the below steps
This way you can send message between the app and the web chatroom.
Check out this video on YouTube to see the app in action.
NOTE: Sometimes, when you join a Socket.IO chat room on web, it might be a different chat room than the one to which the app is connected. I don't know what causes this since I am not the developer of Socket.IO web chat room.
This is a side project app to experiment/play around with Android framework. This is not a production app. So there is no guarantee that issues/feature-requests/enhancements will be worked upon.
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