Pusher on Android

Question

I'm trying to get Pusher working on Android. Here are my needs.

• Must support "private-" channels
• Must support secure connections
• Must be able to override the pusher/auth endpoint.

Note: I've already tried the following routes....

• loading pusher.js in a WebView and letting it fall back to SockJS
• https://github.com/pusher/pusher-phonegap-android (Does not seem to support secure connections)
• https://github.com/EmoryM/Android_Pusher/blob/master/src/com/emorym/android_pusher (Requires a private key to be pushed to the client, also not up to date)
• https://github.com/jmschultz/JavaPusherClient (Does not support private channels)

Anyone else have any luck with this?

Answer 1

Pusher have a Java library: https://github.com/pusher/pusher-java-client

There's a very simple sample application here: https://github.com/pusher/pusher-android-example

You can tell the Pusher instance to use an encrypted connection via PusherOptions. See: https://github.com/pusher/pusher-java-client/blob/master/src/main/java/com/pusher/client/PusherOptions.java#L24

I think this is likely to be updated to be the default, or at least reconnection will try over SSL if an unencrypted connection fails.