Android - Sockets vs Polling

Question

As part of an Android app I\'m developing there is a chat room feature. We have a server which can process the incoming messages and store the messages. Is it better to keep

Answer 1

It is bad solution with poll for app that have randomly posting data. What I want to say is that polling data is useful when you have something that is happening discrete like every 5 minutes or something like that. this is not the case with chat, some user can post something ones in a hour , some can post 30 times in 2 minutes

so keep your sockets open