Examples, Tutorials

Skype Public API has two built-in methods for 3rd party applications to communicate with each-other: streams and datagrams. As The API reference states, datagrams are a non-guaranteed packet delivery method, vaguely similar to UDP while streams are a continuous, guaranteed delivery and packet order method, similar to TCP/IP connections. Except that there has been a long-standing problem with API streams apparently not really delivering the packets in the same order.

This phenomenon was particularly easy to reproduce with short streams of small packets. Pumping a string of 10 packets of 100 bytes each, pretty much always resulted in packets coming out from the stream in reverse order.

After long search, we finally found the root cause of this problem and while it appears to be too difficult to fix it in a hurry, we can at least offer firstly an explanation of what is going on and secondly a (hopefully temporary) workaround.

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As I was uploading new examples in the DevZone for the Mac developer, I thought you guys would like to be posted here too.

There have been a couple of important fixes lately in the Skype.framework made by our internal developers.

For example [SkypeAPI connect] and ConnectToSkype functions are much faster now. That was something API Mac developers reported in the past.

Support for multi-threaded API clients was improved and many new commands implemented. We highly recommend you to use the latest version of Skype.framework (2.6.0.142). You could read the Change Log history.

Skype Mac version 2.6 also features a window where it is possible to edit the permissions of Skype API clients.

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