Smack
A modular and portable open source XMPP client library written in Java for Android and Java (SE) VMs (by igniterealtime)
Conversations
Conversations is an open source XMPP/Jabber client for Android (by iNPUTmice)
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| Smack | Conversations | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 58 | |
| 2,366 | 4,210 | |
| 0.1% | - | |
| 7.9 | 0.0 | |
| 2 days ago | 8 months ago | |
| Java | Java | |
| Apache License 2.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Smack
Posts with mentions or reviews of Smack.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-24.
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No XEP-0333 Chat Markers in XMMPP Openfire backend - how did you solve it?
Is this really impossible without Chat Markers? Do you suggest we switch the server stack to something else? eg. Smack seems to have some support
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Zoom: Remote Code Execution with XMPP Stanza Smuggling
https://github.com/igniterealtime/Smack/blob/master/smack-xm...
I don't see any opportunity not to block when calling "next"
Conversations
Posts with mentions or reviews of Conversations.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-03.
- Modern XMPP Server
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Android Jabber App
AFAIK Conversations is one of the best, if not the best. On F-Droid it’s gratis, on Google Play it costs something.
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⟳ 1 apps added, 48 updated at f-droid.org
Conversations (version 2.12.3): Encrypted, easy-to-use XMPP instant messenger for your mobile device
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Quicksy
Had no idea Conversations got spun off?
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Jabber.org, the original XMPP IM service has migrated to Prosody IM
Conversations [1] is the best Android XMPP client I know. IIRC they pushed the adoption of OMEMO and implemented it first, before the desktop clients could catch up.
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Chat app without undo or delete of messages
Maybe have a look at Briar or good old Jabber (XMPP) with OTR or OMEMO, e.g. implemented in Conversations.
- Conversations 2.11.0 released – open-source Jabber/XMPP client for Android
- Conversations 2.11.0 released - Opensource Jabber/XMPP client for Android
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⟳ 1 apps added, 23 updated at f-droid.org
Conversations (version 2.11.0+free): An encrypted, user friendly XMPP instant messaging client optimized for mobile
- A bit of a rant - and, possibly, a Signal alternative
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Smack and Conversations you can also consider the following projects:
Xabber - Open-source XMPP client for Android
blabber.im - blabber.im basiert auf Conversations und ist ein Open Source XMPP/Jabber Messenger für Android 4.1+
yaxim - yaxim - a lean XMPP/Jabber client for Android
Android-Paho-Mqtt-Service
Nakadi - A distributed event bus that implements a RESTful API abstraction on top of Kafka-like queues
Apache Camel - Apache Camel is an open source integration framework that empowers you to quickly and easily integrate various systems consuming or producing data.
jami-cli - Jami client for terminal
Apache Kafka - Mirror of Apache Kafka
Synapse - Synapse: Matrix homeserver written in Python/Twisted.