I've been using Socket.IO on Android for 6+ months now to do real-time communication with our backend, and it works well for our needs. I was happy to see a well-written Android client come along with Socket.IO v1.0. The namespacing functionality makes it super easy to send different messages to different groups of clients.
This is pretty cool.<p>On a similar note, anyone know of equivalent options for iOS? I see a few open source implementations, but none that are actively developed. There's SocketRocket, but that's just vanilla WebSockets.
Wow.<p>I've just had a heated debate about this at work. I think it's pretty cool, my colleague thinks it's the worst idea ever.<p>Does this actually work in the real world? What if i'm moving?