using rabbitmq in android for chat

Question

We have implemented rabbitmq chat in android. but java client of rabbitmq is power hungry.is rabbitmq good for android chat?. we have used direct exchange individual queue for p

Answer 1

Maybe you could combine RabbitMQ with GCM to save power as GCM gets triggered by the system and doesn´t need to keep any extra connection alive.

For example:

The app gets notified via GCM when any new event comes in. Then a new Rabbit connection gets established, retrieving the data and timeouting after a short while again, if no messages are coming in again.

So the actual "hungryness" exists only for a short moment and only when neccessary.

You can also analyze which users are tending to always write multiple messages close behind one other and vary the timeout based on that value