Java (Android) WebSocket Client Libraries

Question

There are some libraries to implement WebSocket usage in an unobtrusive fashion. Apparently, there are many libraries out, but what I really looking is a modern and small library which I can use on Android or Java in generall to implement my WebSocket usage from the client side.

So far I have found:

• AndroidAsync
• Play Framework
• JAX-RS 2.0

I am missing a bit the differences of the differnet libraries. JAX-RS 2.0 for instance seems to be a great foundation for a lot of implementations, but I also went with Square's Retrofit for my RESTful Client because it was just leaner and easy to integrate.

Solution

I just work on one of my first web socket app in android. So I do lot of R&D before I starting and at last I found these two libs are very simple and useful for my requirement.

1 ) AndroidAsync (For clients )

2 ) Java-WebSocket (https://github.com/TooTallNate/Java-WebSocket ) for Server

Both are very simple and easy to use.

Comments

[Janus Troelsen]

I wouldn't recommend that server library. It isn't being maintained and it has lots of open issues.

[SkyPunch]

Hi @khurram i assume you are talking about this library github.com/koush/AndroidAsync . i couldn't find a proper example on simple connect send and receive data from server. Can you help me with any

[khurram]

Yes Deepak you are right, I have used same library in my project and its simple to use, please let me know how can I help you if you are still looking for it.