how can meteor be coupled to an android app?

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The meteor homepage (www.meteor.com) says in bullet point 8 ("interoperability"):

You can connect anything to Meteor, from native mobile apps to legacy databases to Arduinos. Just implement the simple DDP protocol.

Question: Android is Java, how can it connect to meteor (js)? Any links to useful resources / tutorials would be appreciated!

Here's an up-to-date Android client that works with the latest versions of Meteor: https://github.com/delight-im/Android-DDP — caw, Nov 10 '14 at 00:48

score 5 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:25

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DDP stands for Distributed Data Protocol and is specific for Meteor.

There is no built-in Android/Java support yet, but here is an official Meteor DDP client written in Python that you could use as a reference: https://github.com/meteor/meteor/tree/devel/examples/unfinished/python-ddp-client

More information:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10128430/documentation-or-code-details-on-meteors-ddp-pub-sub-protocol
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answered May 21 '12 at 19:22

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There is a [C# DPP Client](https://github.com/sonyarouje/DDPClient.NET/blob/master/Net.DDP.Client/DDPClient.cs) on GitHub, described in [DDPClient.NET– .NET Client For The Meteor Distributed Data Protocol](http://dotnet.dzone.com/articles/ddpclientnet%E2%80%93-net-client) which might be a useful start point for anyone writing an Android or general Java client. – Francis Norton May 24 '13 at 10:42

kenyee · Answer 2 · 2013-07-30T20:42:37.250

Not sure why no one mentioned this, but there is a Java DDP client library:

https://github.com/kutrumbo/java-ddp-client

FYI, I've forked this and fleshed it out quite a bit. I started writing an Android app with it and found it missing a lot of stuff to get it to work properly:

https://github.com/kenyee/java-ddp-client

I also wrote up an Android layer over this to make things easier and will check it into Github as soon as I figure out how to get it to work w/ Gradle in Eclipse (can't get it to recognize the android-libraries plugin so none of the references to the Android library work)-: I did write an Android app using all this stuff...look in the Play store for "Meteor.js Party" which matches Meteor's Parties sample.

Are there any plans to get the library up to speed with `Meteor 1.0`? — theblang, Nov 06 '14 at 20:31

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 01 '13 at 15:15

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FYI, I wrote up a higher level Android DDP layer that takes care of client state including collection handling.

It's on github and includes Maven artifacts in Maven Central (my version of the java-ddp-client also is in Maven Central): https://github.com/kenyee/android-ddp-client

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Hi, trying to run the MeteorPartiesDDPClient example. But it does not work . It is not able to connect to the server. The error is "websocket initialisation error. (Exception in callback?)". – srinivas Feb 20 '15 at 10:01

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 21 '15 at 22:46

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Clients can communicate with Meteor through its DDP protocol (specs). Look at the list of independent DDP implementations for common platforms.

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