Smack VS Xabber

Compare Smack vs Xabber and see what are their differences.

Smack

A modular and portable open source XMPP client library written in Java for Android and Java (SE) VMs (by igniterealtime)
Messaging XMPP xmpp-client-library Java Android android-library java-library Jabber
Source Code
igniterealtime.org
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Xabber

Open-source XMPP client for Android (by redsolution)
XMPP Android Otr Java Chat Mobile Messenger Xabber xmpp-client
Source Code
xabber.com
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Smack Xabber
2 1
2,366 1,809
0.1% 0.0%
7.9 0.0
8 days ago over 1 year ago
Java Java
Apache License 2.0 GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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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.

Xabber

Posts with mentions or reviews of Xabber. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-10.
  • XMPP: The secure communication protocol that respects privacy
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Jan 2022
    Depending on when you last tried xmpp you might have experienced the OTR hell, which was never really codified 100% and spawned subtle incompatibilities between clients leading to weird and nondescript errors that never got addressed. Nowadays the popular clients support omemo (https://conversations.im/omemo/), which makes encryption just work™ out of the box and without hassle. The only exception to this is xabber, who are apparently afraid of law enforcement destroying their lifes should they implement proper encryption and also feel no need to support it anyways: https://github.com/redsolution/xabber-android/issues/540

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Smack and Xabber you can also consider the following projects:

Conversations - Conversations is an open source XMPP/Jabber client for Android

yaxim - yaxim - a lean XMPP/Jabber client for Android

Android-Paho-Mqtt-Service

blabber.im - blabber.im basiert auf Conversations und ist ein Open Source XMPP/Jabber Messenger für Android 4.1+

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.

androidpn - An open source project to provide push notification support for Android -- a xmpp based notification server and a client tool kit.

Apache Kafka - Mirror of Apache Kafka

revolution-irc - A modern Android IRC client. #revolutionirc on Libera.chat

Smack vs Conversations Xabber vs Conversations Smack vs yaxim Xabber vs yaxim Smack vs Android-Paho-Mqtt-Service Xabber vs blabber.im Smack vs Nakadi Xabber vs Android-Paho-Mqtt-Service Smack vs Apache Camel Xabber vs androidpn Smack vs Apache Kafka Xabber vs revolution-irc