To celebrate the news that the IBM Java MQTT client implementation will be released as open source, I've put together a simple Android example based on the MQTT service code written by Dale Lane. I'm a beginner at both Java and Android, so expect it to be a bit rough.

The example displays incoming payload text on a text label. It's a complete project that you can build and install on your phone with only a few small changes - search for "CHANGE ME" in src/org/mosquitto/android/mqtt/MQTTDemo.java.

To get the project working, assuming you've already installed the android sdk, first get the IBM Java library (see http://mqtt.org/software) and put it in <project dir>/lib then do the following:

android update project -p &lt;path to project&gt;
# If the update complains about build.xml - delete it and run again
cd &lt;path to project&gt;
ant debug
sudo adb start-server
ant installd

I'll not be at all surprised if there are problems in the project due to different sdk or tool versions. Please comment if you find a problem.

The project is available from http://mosquitto.org/files/examples/android-mqtt-example.zip. Until the IBM Java implementation is open source please be aware of the licence attached to it.

Thanks to Dale for the core Android MQTT service implementation.