Android: Real time android application design

I'm not familiar with any of that, please give your suggestions, thank you.

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Realtime bi-direction full-duplex communication = WebSockets.

IMHO WebSockets will become the standard for server client communication. It's still reasonably early in their development, in terms of non-browser solutions, but the amount of options available to developers is increasing all the time. jWebSockets look like a good solution for Android and there are a host of WebSocket servers that are available to choose from. I work for Pusher who offer a hosted WebSocket service and there are other similar services that you can investigate.

Have a look at this realtime technologies guide for a list of technologies (I'm trying to keep this up to date as much as possible as I find new technologies).