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Revision 4 (Frédéric Barthéléry, 02/08/2011 11:00 PM) → Revision 5/12 (Vincent Véronis, 07/20/2011 12:58 PM)
h1. FAQ
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h2. About BEEM
h3. What does BEEM mean?
BEEM means "Boost your Eyes, Ears and Mouth"
h3. Do you guys have a XMPP groupchat room?
Yes. You can find us at beem@conference.elyzion.net. You can also find us on the IRC at the channel #beem on freenode network.
h3. Why BEEM needs those crazy permissions ??
Here is a list of the different permissions used by BEEM
|_. Permission |_. Need |
| android.permission.INTERNET| to access the internet connection |
| android.permission.VIBRATE | to set vibrate on Beemç notifications |
| android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE | to stock the avatar datas on the SDCARD |
| android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE | to check the connectivity status |
| com.beem.project.beem.BEEM_SERVICE | Custom permission which will be used to allow other applications to use the Beem service |
h3. Can I use BEEM in my own project ?
You can use the source code of beem (in free or paid apps http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html ) as most as you want as long as you respect the requirements of the gplv3 : http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html.
We have no commercial business around BEEM but we will really glad if other people can bring back to the upstream their ameliorations.
If you have any question we will be glad to help you.
h2. Common issues
h3. I use a Google Apps account and I can't connect with BEEM !!!
The Gtalk server use a non standard authentication scheme : they don't use the user part of the jid to authenticate but instead they use the full jid.
Starting to Beem-0.1.5 version, you can use an option in the advanced preferences to use the full jid to authenticate.
For previous version, if the domain part of your JID is not gmail.com or googlemail.com you have to enter in BEEM a jid in this form : user@example.com@example.com