Android Studio - MQTT not connecting

Question

I have just started learning using MQTT protocol with Android Studio. Using mosquitto broker, I am able to exchange messages between pub/sub windows. But when I send message to broker through android studio, the app builds successfully but nothing displays on broker's end & system prints Connection Failure. The same code works fine on eclipse java application, but not working on android although required libraries and dependencies have been added.

Please help, what am I missing in this basic step so i can learn forward. Thank you!

app-build.gradle

    dependencies {
    compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
    androidTestCompile('com.android.support.test.espresso:espresso-core:2.2.2', {
        exclude group: 'com.android.support', module: 'support-annotations'
    })
    compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:25.2.0'
    compile 'com.android.support.constraint:constraint-layout:1.0.2'
    testCompile 'junit:junit:4.12'

// have added following dependencies

    provided 'com.google.android.things:androidthings:0.2-devpreview'
    provided 'com.google.android.things:androidthings:0.1-devpreview'
    compile 'org.eclipse.paho:org.eclipse.paho.client.mqttv3:1.0.2'

}

project-build.gradle

   repositories {
            jcenter()
            maven {
                url "https://repo.eclipse.org/content/repositories/paho-snapshots/"
            }    
}

AndroidManifest.xml

 <manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    package="com.example.zoha.mqttandroidiot">

    <!-- Permissions the Application Requires -->
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WAKE_LOCK" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />


    <application
        android:allowBackup="true"
        android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
        android:label="@string/app_name"
        android:roundIcon="@mipmap/ic_launcher_round"
        android:supportsRtl="true"
        android:theme="@style/AppTheme">


        <activity android:name=".HomeActivity">

            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN"/>
                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER"/>
            </intent-filter>

            <!-- Launch activity automatically on boot -->
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN"/>
                <category android:name="android.intent.category.IOT_LAUNCHER"/>
                <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT"/>
            </intent-filter>

        </activity>
<service android:name="org.eclipse.paho.android.service.MqttService"/>

    </application>

</manifest>

HomeActivity

  public class HomeActivity extends AppCompatActivity{

    MqttAndroidClient client;
   // private static final MemoryPersistence persistence = new MemoryPersistence();

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        final MqttAndroidClient mqttAndroidClient = new MqttAndroidClient(this.getApplicationContext(), "tcp://localhost:1883", "androidSampleClient");
        mqttAndroidClient.setCallback(new MqttCallback() {
            @Override
            public void connectionLost(Throwable cause) {
                System.out.println("Connection was lost!");

            }

            @Override
            public void messageArrived(String topic, MqttMessage message) throws Exception {
                System.out.println("Message Arrived!: " + topic + ": " + new String(message.getPayload()));

            }

            @Override
            public void deliveryComplete(IMqttDeliveryToken token) {
                System.out.println("Delivery Complete!");
            }
        });

        try {
            mqttAndroidClient.connect(null, new IMqttActionListener() {
                @Override
                public void onSuccess(IMqttToken asyncActionToken) {
                    System.out.println("Connection Success!");
                    try {
                        System.out.println("Subscribing to /test");
                        mqttAndroidClient.subscribe("/test", 0);
                        System.out.println("Subscribed to /test");
                        System.out.println("Publishing message..");
                        mqttAndroidClient.publish("/test", new MqttMessage("Hello world testing..!".getBytes()));
                    } catch (MqttException ex) {

                    }

                }

                @Override
                public void onFailure(IMqttToken asyncActionToken, Throwable exception) {
                    System.out.println("Connection Failure!");
                }
            });
        } catch (MqttException ex) {

        }


    }
    }

Answer 1

Ok so you need two libraries to use MQTT in Android. One is the mqtt paho client and other being Android service library.

compile 'org.eclipse.paho:org.eclipse.paho.android.service:1.0.2'
compile 'org.eclipse.paho:org.eclipse.paho.client.mqttv3:1.0.2'

Then, use MqttAndroidClient instead of MqttClient.

So do new MqttAndroidClient(...).

I posted a full Android MQTT service example here, if that helps.

EDIT: full activity example

(1) MemoryPersistence added when creating new MqttAndroidClient.
(2) Two parameters added to .connect() method of the MqttAndroidClient (mqttConnectOptions and null).
(3) Also, printing the error on onFailure()

public class HomeActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    private MqttAndroidClient client;
    private final MemoryPersistence persistence = new MemoryPersistence();

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        final MqttAndroidClient mqttAndroidClient = new MqttAndroidClient(this.getApplicationContext(), "tcp://localhost:1883", "androidSampleClient", persistence);
        mqttAndroidClient.setCallback(new MqttCallback() {
            @Override
            public void connectionLost(Throwable cause) {
                System.out.println("Connection was lost!");
            }

            @Override
            public void messageArrived(String topic, MqttMessage message) throws Exception {
                System.out.println("Message Arrived!: " + topic + ": " + new String(message.getPayload()));
            }

            @Override
            public void deliveryComplete(IMqttDeliveryToken token) {
                System.out.println("Delivery Complete!");
            }
        });

        MqttConnectOptions mqttConnectOptions = new MqttConnectOptions();
        mqttConnectOptions.setCleanSession(true);

        try {
            mqttAndroidClient.connect(mqttConnectOptions, null, new IMqttActionListener() {
                @Override
                public void onSuccess(IMqttToken asyncActionToken) {
                    System.out.println("Connection Success!");
                    try {
                        System.out.println("Subscribing to /test");
                        mqttAndroidClient.subscribe("/test", 0);
                        System.out.println("Subscribed to /test");
                        System.out.println("Publishing message..");
                        mqttAndroidClient.publish("/test", new MqttMessage("Hello world testing..!".getBytes()));
                    } catch (MqttException ex) {

                    }
                }

                @Override
                public void onFailure(IMqttToken asyncActionToken, Throwable exception) {
                    System.out.println("Connection Failure!");
                    System.out.println("throwable: " + exception.toString());
                }
            });
        } catch (MqttException ex) {
            System.out.println(ex.toString());
        }
    }
}