Welcome to Android jChat project!

Chatting on Android the agent way

Android jChat is a Location Based Chat application that provides a good example of peer-to peer application aimed at proving the power of adding JADE (http://jade.tilab.com) agent capabilities to the ANDROID Platform.

JADE introduces the concept of agent oriented development and this application demonstrates the flexibility of this approach, that it is easily applied to a common p2p environment as in a chat application.

The current version of jChat is based on an old version of JADE. A new version of JADE (4.1.1) that supports Android 2.2 or above was released on November 18, 2011. More info or resources can be found here. It's also possible to download here a simple chat application described on the JADE programming for Android tutorial that uses the latest version of JADE. A new version of jChat based on the new version of JADE will be released soon.

Please tell us if you enjoyed jChat by posting your comments in our wiki or by helping filling up our issue list.

jChat Wiki quick links

• Getting started with jChat
• Discussion and comments about jChat and JADE

News

jChat 1.4 Released!! (28 September 2010)

A new version of jChat has been released, supporting Android 2.2. You can download it here

jChat 1.3 Released!! (13 January 2009)

A new version of jChat has been released, supporting the GPhone!

You can download it here

Release Features

• Support for the GPhone, tested on real hardware
• Generic bugfixing

jChat 1.2 Released!! (18 October 2008)

A new version of jChat has been released, supporting Android 1.0!

You can download it here

Release Features

• Support for Android 1.0
• The mocked location provider service has been removed (due to API changes) and a new ddms-like tool for mocking GPS receiver has been introduced. You are now able to load different tracks to snd to different emulator instances at the same time!

jChat 1.1 Released!! (10 September 2008)

A new version of jChat has been released, supporting Android 0.9 beta!

You can download it here

These are some screenshot taken from the new jChat 1.1

Release Features

• Support for Android 0.9 beta
• Custom Mocked Location Provider service to be used for sending location updates importing custom kml tracks (old mocked location provider is no more available)
• Jade Connection parameters are now stored on the phone as application preferences (no need of rewriting them each time)

jChat 1.0 Released!! (28 July 2008)

See the jChat 1.0 video tutorial from YouTube or download the higher quality version!

These are some screenshot taken from jChat 1.0

Release Features

• Create JADE agents on Android phones
• Use contacts from phone contact database
• Chat with contacts by sending text messages
• Send SMS to contacts
• Call contacts by phone
• See contacts position on the map in realtime
• Dinamically switch between different ongoing conversations

Learn more about agent oriented development

• JADE framework site
• Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents website

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