BEEM - Android XMPP

Reception of user avatar ok. still needs to display them.

I recently updated BEEM via the Market to Version 1.5 but it doesn't show the avatar of my contacts.

At the moment I'm chatting with somebody who uses a avatar and empathy displays it but not beem :(
What I noticed is, that sometimes the beem logo disappears and a black rectangle shows up (but his avatar isn't black).

Fabian

User Avatar is the next standard to display avatar in XMPP. But it is not implemented in a lot of client. They usually relies on vCard-Based Avatars which is not standard and should be deprecated as more clients switch to User Avatar. We decide to support the upcoming standard directly.

Frédéric Barthéléry wrote:

User Avatar is the next standard to display avatar in XMPP. But it is not implemented in a lot of client.

Pidgin supports v1.1 of it (which is the most recent one as far as I can tell), according to http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/SupportedXEPs. Still, I cannot see the avatars of my pidgin contacts. They just don’t show up.

I’m running an ejabberd with enabled mod_pubsub with PEP plugin, also pubsub_createnode as set to {allow, all}.

What’s the best way to debug this? How can I verify that the pidgin clients have set the avatar correctly and how can I verify that Beem recognizes them correctly?

Thanks!

Does your contact's server support pubsub and pep too ? If not I think pidgin fallback on the old vcard method.

The best way to verify it works is to enable asmack debugging and look for the pep message.
Use adb logcat -s SMACK to see only the protocol log. If your contact has an avatar set, you should receive an xmpp stanza such as

<message to='romeo@montague.lit' from='juliet@capulet.lit'>
  <event xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/pubsub#event'>
    <items node='urn:xmpp:avatar:metadata'>
      <item id='111f4b3c50d7b0df729d299bc6f8e9ef9066971f'>
        <metadata xmlns='urn:xmpp:avatar:metadata'>
          <info bytes='12345'
                height='64'
                id='111f4b3c50d7b0df729d299bc6f8e9ef9066971f'
                type='image/png'
                width='64'/>
        </metadata>
      </item>
    </items>
  </event>
</message>

Notice the items node which is "urn:xmpp:avatar:metadata". If you receive this, Beem will automatically download the avatar and store it on your sdcard (/mnt/sdcard/Android/data/com.beem.project.beem/cache/avatar/).