Thread: [WIP] Porting Whatsapp to Meego/Maemo (N9, N900)
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tgalal is offline tgalal
2012-03-02 , 03:00
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Originally Posted by dcastrog View Post
nice! is there any challenge at the login (how are we going to login, with what password)??
Although it would be nice addition for many users, but I find no advantage for having the password chosen/entered manually (yet).

Originally Posted by rash.m2k View Post
Whats the point of binary coding (I'm assuming this is base64) the stanzas first?

Are you sure it's not just GZIP compression?

BTW - impressed with the client, it looks basic, but impressive non-the-less.

EDIT:: Google talk video calling is also available on the ovi store.
Well one advantage is that tags and attributes are maintained mainly on server and client side. And so you'd only send and receive references to these data to use to reconstruct a stanza. This means less data transfer over the network..

Originally Posted by don_falcone View Post
Will this end as a proper Pidgin or IM plugin, or do we go the Android/iOS route with individual "apps" for every function/service? (not that i will use it, just curious if there's a change in approach for Maemo)
Whatsapp has some features which aren't going to be available or utilized if implemented as a plugin. For example; message delivery to server and delivery to friend indicators. It might eventually end up as both (a standalone app and a plugin), however, my priority now is a standalone app.
 

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