For an Android application, you will likely be looking at integrating directly via XMPP protocol, and will probably want to explore using an XMPP library/stack to provide the protocol abstraction (Cisco does not recommend or directly support any particular XMPP libraries): http://xmpp.org/software/libraries.html
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