Kafka Producer on Android

Question

I would like to use an Android client as a Kafka Producer. When I try to send a record to the topic I'm getting following error:

Didn't find class "java.lang.management.ManagementFactory

on this line:

mProducer = new KafkaProducer(configProperties);

I am below the limit for the amount of methods:

Total methods in mobile-debug.apk: 52200 (79.65% used) 
Total fields in mobile-debug.apk:  21143 (32.26% used) 

What can be the reason that causes this error?

By the way, I wasn't able to find any example where kafka producer was used on an Android or iOS.

Update 1

In addition to the answer of Borys Zibrov, seems that nobody ported it successfully. These threads are also 2 years old.

• https://qnalist.com/questions/5017593/has-anybody-successfully-integrated-kafka-jar-for-android-app

• https://www.quora.com/In-Apache-Kafka-Can-we-have-mobiles-Android-or-IOS-Devices-as-Consumers-What-is-your-take-on-this

Update 2

Regarding the ManagementFactory class, see this question: android add java.lang.management API

Answer 1

I'm actually not sure it's possible to use Kafka as a producer on Android (see for instance, this question, not answered at the moment of writing), because of the dependencies involved. So, someone might have ported Kafka to Android but I don't know that.

I could suggest a simple alternative: REST service that posts data to Kafka, and Android App will just call this service.