MQTT and Android

There are a range of great articles and samples showing how MQTT can be used on the Android platform.

• Android MQTT Push code sample for German Eclipse Magazin article on Eclipse Paho on Android

• MQTT and Android comprehensive example discussing various issues by Dale Lane

• Complete example project based on the work by Dale, from the mosquitto team.

• First Android Service from Ben Hardill

• Push Notifications for Android using MQTT

• HelloMQTT a simple example

• ListMQTT follow-on demonstrating listing by topic

• Using MQTT with Android on IBM developerWorks (in Chinese)

• An Android group chat app using MQTT

• Android with ActiveMQ and MQTT

• Android-Paho-MQTT-Service - A simple MQTT Service that will keep running for the duration of your Android application using the Paho Java MQTT Client.

• mqttitude - A Google Latitude replacement based on MQTT

• MQTT Widget - A free, useful android app that provides you with an unlimited number of fully configurable widgets [buttons,sliders, setpoints, Strings, etc.] and hence a configurable GUI for interacting with a MQTT broker.

There are also some good write-ups out there about reasons to use MQTT on mobile platforms:

• Power profiling MQTT on Android

• Power profiling HTTPS Long Polling vs MQTT with SSL on Android