How to keep a XMPP connection stable on Android with (a)smack?

Question

I use asmack-android-7-beem library for Android. I have a background service running, such as my app stays alive. But sooner or later XMPP connection dies without any notice

Answer 1

When using asmack put some code like this in your app to make Dalvik load the ReconnectionManager class and run it's static initialization block:

static {
    try {
        Class.forName("org.jivesoftware.smack.ReconnectionManager");
    } catch (ClassNotFoundException ex) {
        // problem loading reconnection manager
    }
}