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Last I checked, the protocol encoding for GTalk on Android had been modified to make it more lightweight for mobile -- it could be an entirely different protocol, not sure. XML FTL.

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Google Talk on Android uses the same XMPP-based signaling as all the other Google Talk products (gmail, the win32 app, etc).

Sounded like they were moving towards a different encoding though. Is this still valid? http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=201#c1

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