Comments on: Google Talk Status Countdown

By: Abd Allah Diab

Abd Allah Diab — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 06:31:41 +0000

My code is not designed to save the status, since the status will be changing frequently, if you want to set a static status message you can set it using Google Talk, or if you want to set it in code you can check Gaby's reply here which contains such code.

By: pavan kumar

pavan kumar — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 06:28:30 +0000

hi- I am using your code and it’s working fine but when i closed the app the status message set to previous one, how can we set status message permanently like gtalk sets. please give me some inputs that how to set status message permanently.

By: Gaby

Gaby — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 17:51:16 +0000

You’re welcome!
This is something used by Latitude, and I don’t like Buzz updates too…

By: Abd Allah Diab

Abd Allah Diab — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 13:47:28 +0000

After I read your code and done some tests I decided not to include your method in my solution, not that your method is wrong or something, but I don’t want to change the shared status, since it’d be changing periodically. And by changing the shared status any services connected to the status will get notified (e.g. Google Buzz) and it’d be annoying to have a notification every time the status changes.

Thanks for your code, it helped me do another thing not related to this post

By: Abd Allah Diab

Abd Allah Diab — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 16:04:16 +0000

Great, I’ll play with your method a little bit and integrate it with my solution, and I’ll add some options to set a proxy for the connection.

Thanks Gaby!

By: Gaby

Gaby — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 15:59:33 +0000

I’ve created something that changes all statuses of all clients (Android, GMail, …)
Perhaps you could update your post with some ideas from my code : http://code.google.com/p/gtalk-status-countdown/source/browse/status-counter/src/main/java/org/glandais/gtalk/statuscounter/App.java

By: Abd Allah Diab

Abd Allah Diab — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 21:58:15 +0000

Are you sure it doesn’t even become “Connecting …”? If it encounters an error while connecting it displays a message with the error, and that’s while saying “Connecting …”.

By: Juliet

Juliet — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:56:47 +0000

Hi- I can’t log in..am i doing something wrong? I downloaded and extracted the 2 files….and opened the interface and tried to log in..but it just keeps saying Not Connected

By: Abd Allah Diab

Abd Allah Diab — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 21:59:16 +0000

Wa Alaikom Al Salam,
This code works, and it does changes the GTalk status, but as I said in the post, you won’t notice the change from the GTalk interface, if you wanna make sure it is changed ask one of your friends to tell you your status, you can ask me if you want

By: Tahir Akram

Tahir Akram — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 21:48:15 +0000

Aslam o Alaykum Diab!

Well as you mentioned in the post, I tried this code. But it’s not updating GTalk status nor it giving any exception. Run perfect.

XMPPConnection connection = new XMPPConnection("gmail.com"); //Server is gmail.com for Google Talk. connection.connect(); connection.login("mygmailid@gmail.com", "mypassword"); //Username and password.

Presence p = new Presence(Presence.Type.available); p.setStatus("MY STATUS"); p.setPriority(24); //Highest priority in Google Talk p.setMode(Presence.Mode.available); //This is one of XMPP modes (Available, Chat, DND, Away, XA). connection.sendPacket(p);

Please help what should I do to just programmaticaly update GTalk status.

Thanks in advance.