Instant messaging (IM) is a form of communication over the Internet, that offers quick transmission of text-based messages from sender to receiver.
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Fastest way to constantly send and receive data between 2 Android phones
What is the fastest way to constantly send and receive data between 2 Android phones?
e.g. long, lat, IM or just some number.
not for an always-on connection or push services. The app is running on foreground and waiting for data on both sides.

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store messages of messaging application
Actually, I am developing a messaging app and use cassandra as a database and kafka as a message broker.
My question is:
Do I need to store the messages between users in cassandra? If I do so, then size of my database will grow really fast.
As I…

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How do Yahoo! Messenger status detectors work?
How do services such as ydetector.com make the difference between invisible users and off-line users?

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Device to device communication using socket.io in android is not working?
I am working on an android messaging application .I have used compile 'io.socket:socket.io-client:0.6.2' library to implement this.I am successful in sending messages from android application to web application and receiving messages from web…

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Build Android XMPP instant messenger and server Example
Backgrounds
I want to learn about instant messenger, both android app and server.
In my first thought, I want to use GCM to communicate. But I found the article below. By this article, GCM is not good for sending messages, and It seems that I need…

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Eliom client to client messaging - Eref scope issue
I have been trying to gain a better understanding of the Eliom functionality for communication lately and to do so I tried to build a simple web page that allows users to send messages to each other.
The web page works fine if I log in as one user…

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Don't receive BroadcastReceiver using sinch example
I tried using this example in my app in order to have instant messaging
https://www.sinch.com/tutorials/android-messaging-tutorial-using-sinch-and-parse/
I call broadcast receiver to listen for the broadcast from my service, but it never succeed or…

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Error: Could not find or load main class com.install4j.runtime.launcher.Launcher
I am trying to install spark client IM in Ubuntu 14.04 64 bit, but it throws error
Could not find or load main class com.install4j.runtime.launcher.Launcher
I performed step 1 from this link…

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Message keeps failing to send with Sinch
I've been following this tutorial at https://www.sinch.com/tutorials/android-messaging-tutorial-using-sinch-and-parse/#message and I'm having trouble sending the message to another user. When I write a message and send it. I keep getting a toast…
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Yahoo messenger login
Have you any sample code for login in Yahoo messenger through OpenYMSG using OpenYMSG jar which is on site
http://sourceforge.net/projects/openymsg/

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Sinch Service does not seem to start with Android Studio and Parse.com (Android Messaging Tutorial)
I am following this tutorial: https://www.sinch.com/tutorials/android-messaging-tutorial-using-sinch-and-parse
Github for tutorial: https://github.com/sinch/android-messaging-tutorial
The issue I have is that the service does not seem to start at…

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AJAX instant messenger in Django
I'm going to make AJAX instant messenger app for my Django project and I would like to know if I am thinking in right direction and if not - what am I missing.
So in my mind the problem is not so hard actually, rough plan is:
Make MessageModel…

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Using VBA in excel to send instant message
I keep getting an error while running this script:
Sub sendtext()
Dim msgr as instantmessengerconversationWndAdvanced
Dim Text as string
Text= range("a1").value
Instantmessage (person@mail.com)
msgr.sendtext(Text)
End Sub
It…

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How to send instant notification to smartphones over LAN with no internet
I have a situation where I want my computer in my local network to send a notification (push notification, SMS or whatever) to either an IOS of Android device that is on this same LAN. The trick is that I want to send this notification only when the…

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Quickblox messaging fetch last n messages
I'm using the Quickblox iOS SDK for instant messaging in my app. When a user logs in I retrieve the list of messages. I am trying to retrieve the last N messages. I use extended request parameters as specified in this…

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