I am exploring using push notifications on a Roku app and wanted to ask the Roku forums for any ideas on how to achieve the push notifications functionality, similar to IOS/Android’s use. I am not referring to Roku’s built in push notifications for billing but an independent method. Any ideas?
I.E. XMPP server or socket.io server with the Roku client connecting via websocket ( is this even possible with roStreamSocket or ifSocket? ) Has any developer implemented websockets for general use? I would not want to use long polling either.
I was looking for websockets last year and nothing, seems like dead end.
I suppose you can do UDP datagrams, though it’s quite unclear how long particular firewall/router will hold the NAT mapping, so client will have to ping regularly to keep-alive and if missed, suddenly server will receive it from another port… seems more trouble that worth it.
Periodic pull or long polling comes to mind, why not?
WebSockets has the advantage of being full duplex but give you want 1-way notifications, cost/benefits of long-poll seem the same.
I am too facing the same issue. I want to enable chat functionality in my Roku app and I want to use XMMP for this. Is it possible to use XMMP within a Roku App ? Please reply !!!
“sharukh” wrote:
I am too facing the same issue. I want to enable chat functionality in my Roku app and I want to use XMMP for this. Is it possible to use XMMP within a Roku App ?
i see no issue doing XMMP using its native transport (TCP) or HTTP. You will however have to implement XMMP yourself, i don’t know anyone publishing Roku library for that
