SignalR & Android, what are my options? [closed]

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I'm developing an ASP.NET MVC app that is consumed by both by JavaScript in the browser and by a native Android app, and I wish to use SignalR. This is of course no problem in the browser, but I do not know how to interface from the Android app.

Are my only options:

1. Find a pre-existing Android SignalR library. or
2. Write custom code to interface with the server side SignalR interface?

Answer 1

I'm unaware of any Java based implementation that you could use in an Android application right now. So I think you're looking at option #2.

Java certainly has the core functionality needed to to be able to communicate with at least the long-polling transport implementation of SignalR pretty easily. You'd just be looking at combining HttpClient with org.json.

Answer 2

I was also searching for a SignalR-client for Android, but i didnt find one so I started to develop one by myself. You can checkit out at https://github.com/erizet/SignalA. Curently it's more like a proof-of-concept than a finnished library. It's now updated to protocol version 1.2 which is used in the 1.0 release of SignalR.

Answer 3

If HTML5-based Android app is an option, you can try using native SignalR JavaScript client. Works flawlessly.

Answer 4

Host a hidden webview in your application and use the script bridge to talk to it. Use the javascript signalr libraries in your webview.