CC3000 and UDP issue

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When researching the CC3000 for my project I saw it stated UDP support. But now that I’ve bought one and worked on the implementation I’ve found a note on Github that UDP receive isn’t currently supported.

I want to control my project by sending UDP packets to the Arduino from a handheld device (e.g.using the Ardumote app). Using Arduino’s Wifi library (similar for their Ethernet library) you would declare

// A UDP instance to let us send and receive packets over UDP 
WiFiUDP Udp;

then call code like this in setup

  Serial.println("\nStarting connection to server...");
  Udp.begin(localPort);

and use

Udp.parsePacket()
``` to receive data. 

Looking through Sparkfun's library headers for the CC3000 I can't see that any of this is implemented. The only thing I can find is a connectUDP() method in the Client that requires both an IP address and a port number. I'm not expert at this stuff but it looks like a non-starter to me.

So a couple of questions:

1. Will the Sparkfun library support UDP receive along the lines of the above (I don't care if the API is different as long as a method exists).

2. If it won't support UDP, or if it won't support it for quite a while (like weeks or longer), is there a way I could do this myself? If so, does anyone have an example or pointers to what it would take to implement this?
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Trying to come up with alternative solutions, I took a look at Adafruit’s library. Can that one be used with the Sparkfun board? The Sparkfun library doesn’t seem to support any Server type classes meaning you can’t even telnet into the Sparkfun library. But Adafruit appears to support this.